James 2

Faith and Works

14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such 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, stay warm, and be well fed," but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?  * 2:14–16 Mt 25:35–36; Lk 3:11; 1Jn 3:16–1817 In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.