Holman Christian Standard Bible

James 2:14-21 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

14. What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?

15. If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food

16. and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?

17. In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.

18. But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works.

19. You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe — and they shudder.

20. Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

21. Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?