'Works' in the Bible
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?
So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.
But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.
But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.
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