‘Faith Without Works is Dead’ –Image: St. Paul Street Evangelization
What good is it my Brothers and Sisters if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a Brother or Sister is naked and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, keep warm and eat your fill’ and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what good is that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
Someone will say, ‘You have faith and I have works.’ Show me your faith apart from your works and I by my works will show you my faith. You believe that God is one, you do well. Even the Demons believe and shudder.
Do you you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is barren? Was not our ancestor Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Issac on the altar? You see, faith was active along with his works and faith was brought to completion by the works–Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, ‘Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,’ (See: Romans 4:3 and Galatians 3:6) — he was called the Friend of God.
You see, that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another road? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead. —James 2:14-26
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