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E. Being Justified by Works
in Relations with the Believers

14. What is the profit, my brothers, if anyone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
15. If a brother or sister is without clothing and lacks daily food,
16. And any one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, yet you do not give them the necessities of the body, what is the profit?
17. So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.
18. But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
19. You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe and shudder.
20. But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith without its works is useless?
21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
22. You see that faith worked together with his works, and by these works faith was perfected.
23. And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, And Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.
24. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith only.
25. And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works in that she received the messengers and sent them out by a different way?
26. For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.