for you know that the testing of your faith leads to steadfastness,

But he must ask with faith, and without any doubt, for the man who doubts is like the billowing sea, driven and blown about by the wind.

My brothers, do you try to combine faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with acts of partiality?

Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him?

So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead.

But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds.

But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing?

You see that in his case faith and good deeds worked together; faith found its highest expression in good deeds,

and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend."

You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith.

Just as the body without the spirit is dead, faith is dead without good deeds.

and the prayer offered in faith will save the sick man; the Lord will restore him to health, and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.