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So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. |
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For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; yet mercy triumphs over judgment. |
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What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? |
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If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, |
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and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? |
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So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. |
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But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. |
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You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe--and shudder. |
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Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? |
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Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? |
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You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, |
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and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God. |
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You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. |
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And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? |
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For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead. |