So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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