8 "If you really keep the royal law found in scripture, 'Care for your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing right....

10 "For whoever keeps the entire law, and yet stumbles at just one point, is guilty of breaking all of it.

11 "For He who said, 'Do not commit adultery,' also said, 'Do not murder.'   If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

12 "Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,

13 "because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.   Mercy triumphs over judgment!

14 "What good is it, my brethren, if a man claims to have faith [belief] but has no works?   Can such faith save him?

15 "Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.

16 "If one of you says to him, 'Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is that?

17 "In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

18 "But someone will say, 'You have faith, but I have works.'   Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by what I do.

19 "You believe that there is one Almighty One.   Good!   Even the demons believe that -- and shutter.

20 "You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without works is useless?

21 "Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Yatsaq on the altar?

22 "You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.

23 "And the scripture was fulfilled that says, 'Abram believed the Almighty One, and it was credited to him as righteousness' [Genesis 15:6], and he was called the Almighty One's friend [Isaiah 41:8].

24 "You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.

25 "In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?

26 "As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead."