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The letter on faith without works, Abraham, and Rahab the prostitute

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James 2:14–26: The letter says, “What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, and one of you tells them, ‘Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;’ yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. Yes, a man will say, ‘You have faith, and I have works.’ Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder. But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected. So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,’ and he was called the friend of God. You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.” At 2:18 WEB closes the man’s words after “You have faith, and I have works”, and “Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works” stands outside them; the Korean Revised Version has no quotation marks and does not show where the words after 혹이 가로되 (someone says) end. At 2:20 the Korean reads 헛 것 (a vain thing), where WEB reads “dead”.

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JAS 2:14–26, engwebp
¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
¹⁵And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
¹⁶and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
¹⁷Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
¹⁸Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
¹⁹You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.
²⁰But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
²¹Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
²²You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
²³So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
²⁴You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
²⁵In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
²⁶For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
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Entry: The letter on faith without works, Abraham, and Rahab the prostitute (event-jas-2-faith-without-works-abraham-and-rahab)
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Current wording: James 2:14–26: The letter says, “What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, and one of you tells them, ‘Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;’ yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. Yes, a man will say, ‘You have faith, and I have works.’ Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder. But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected. So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,’ and he was called the friend of God. You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.” At 2:18 WEB closes the man’s words after “You have faith, and I have works”, and “Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works” stands outside them; the Korean Revised Version has no quotation marks and does not show where the words after 혹이 가로되 (someone says) end. At 2:20 the Korean reads 헛 것 (a vain thing), where WEB reads “dead”.
Cited evidence: JAS 2:14–26, engwebp
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