James 2:22

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You see that his faith was working together with his works, and by works his faith was made perfect.

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  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 We remember your work produced by faith, your labor motivated by love, and your endurance inspired by the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father.
  • Heb 11:17-19 : 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son, 18 even though it was said to him, 'Through Isaac your descendants will be named.' 19 Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death as a symbol.
  • Jas 2:18 : 18 But someone will say, 'You have faith, and I have works.' Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
  • 1 John 2:5 : 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.
  • 1 John 4:17-18 : 17 In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.

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  • Jas 2:23-26
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    23And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,' and he was called a friend of God.

    24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

    25In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another route?

    26For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

  • Jas 2:20-21
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    20Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith without works is useless?

    21Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

  • Jas 2:17-18
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    17In the same way, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

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

  • Gal 3:5-7
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    5Does God supply the Spirit to you and work miracles among you by works of the law or by hearing with faith?

    6Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

    7Therefore, know that those who have faith are children of Abraham.

  • Jas 2:14
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    14What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

  • Rom 4:1-6
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    1What then shall we say about Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh?

    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.

    3What does the Scripture say? 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.'

    4Now to the one who works, wages are not counted as a gift but as an obligation.

    5But to the one who does not work but believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

    6Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • Rom 4:19-23
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    19And without weakening in faith, he did not consider his own body, which was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—or the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

    20He did not waver in unbelief concerning the promise of God, but he was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

    21being fully convinced that God was able to do what He had promised.

    22Therefore, it was credited to him as righteousness.

    23Now the words 'it was credited to him' were not written for his sake alone,

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By the law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

    28For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Gal 2:16
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    16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

  • Heb 11:1-4
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    1Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

    2For by it the ancients were commended.

    3By faith we understand that the universe was formed by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

    4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God testifying about his gifts; and through faith, even though he is dead, he still speaks.

  • Gen 15:6
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    6Abram believed the LORD, and He credited it to him as righteousness.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9Is this blessedness then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

    10How then was it credited? Was it while he was circumcised or uncircumcised? It was not while he was circumcised, but while he was uncircumcised.

    11And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness might also be credited to them,

    12and to be the father of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

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    17For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.'

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    3because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

    4Let perseverance complete its work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

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    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son,

  • Rom 4:16-17
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    16Therefore, the promise comes by faith, that it may be according to grace, so that it might be guaranteed to all the offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

    17As it is written: 'I have made you a father of many nations.' He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.

  • Acts 3:16
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    16By faith in His name, this man—whom you see and know—has been made strong. The faith that comes through Jesus has given him this complete healing in the presence of you all.

  • Eph 2:8-10
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    8For by grace you have been saved through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

    9not by works, so that no one can boast.

    10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we might walk in them.

  • Gal 3:11
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    11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.'

  • Heb 11:6
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    6And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever comes to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

  • Jas 1:22
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    22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.