By Faith Alone
James 2:14-26
The kind of faith that saves is a faith that is characterized by works.
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Published July 13th, 2019
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Main point summary
Faith without works is useless and dead; it profits its professor nothing.
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James 2:14-26
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What good is it, my brothers,
if someone says he has faith
o but does not have works?
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Can that faith save him?
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p If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
q and one of you says to them,
“Go in peace,
be warmed and filled,”
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without giving them the things needed for the body,
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what good 1 is that?
So also faith by itself... is dead.
...if it does not have works...
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But someone will say,
“You have faith and I have works.”
Show me your faith
r apart from your works,
and I will show you my faith
s by my works.
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t You believe that God is one;
you do well.
Even u the demons believe—
and shudder!
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Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
v Was not Abraham our father justified by works
when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
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You see that w faith was active along with his works,
and faith was completed x by his works;
and the Scripture was fulfilled that says,
y “Abraham believed God,
and it was counted to him as righteousness”—
and he was called a z friend of God.
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You see that a person is justified
by works
and not by faith alone.
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And in the same way was not also a Rahab the prostitute justified by works
b when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead,
so also faith apart from works is dead.
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"If faith and works are separate, prove your faith without works! But that's impossible, because even demons believe - but they are not therefore justified!"
Faith cannot be proved without works; rather, faith does no good to its professor without works.
Faith without works is useless and dead , because both Abraham and Rahab were justified by works along with their faith.
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