| 2:14 | E oku tuakana, what benefit is there if someone claims to have faith, but he does not have works? How would faith be able to save him? |
| 2:15 | So if a brother or sister is naked and daily in need of food, |
| 2:16 | and if anyone of you were to say to them: “Haere i runga i te rangimarie, keep warm and nourished,” and yet not give them the things that are necessary for the body, of what benefit is this? |
| 2:17 | Thus even faith, if it does not have works, is dead, in and of itself. |
| 2:18 | Now someone may say: “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works! But I will show you my faith by means of works. |
| 2:19 | You believe that there is one God. You do well. But the demons also believe, and they tremble greatly. |
| 2:20 | Na reira, are you willing to understand, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? |
| 2:21 | Was not our father Abraham justified by means of works, by offering his son Isaac upon the altar? |
| 2:22 | Do you see that faith was cooperating with his works, and that by means of works faith was brought to fulfillment? |
| 2:23 | And so the Scripture was fulfilled which says: “Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.” And so he was called the friend of God. |
| 2:24 | Do you see that a man is justified by means of works, and not by faith alone? |
| 2:26 | For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. |
