Knowing, as you do, that the testing of your faith develops endurance.

My Brothers, are you really trying to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the worship of rank?

Listen, my dear Brothers. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the things of this world to be rich through their faith, and to possess the Kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

My Brothers, what is the good of a man's saying that he has faith, if he does not prove it by actions? Can such faith save him?

In just the same way faith, if not followed by actions, is, by itself, a lifeless thing.

Some one, indeed, may say--"You are a man of faith, and I am a man of action." "Then show me your faith," I reply, "apart from any actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions."

It is a part of your Faith, is it not, that there is one God? Good; yet even the demons have that faith, and tremble at the thought.

Now do you really want to understand, you foolish man, how it is that faith without actions leads to nothing?

You see how, in his case, faith and actions went together; that his faith was perfected as the result of his actions;

You see, then, that it is as the result of his actions that a man is pronounced righteous, and not of his faith only.

Exactly as a body is dead without a spirit, so faith is dead without actions.

The prayer offered in faith will save the man who is sick, and the Lord will raise him from his bed; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.