Kukadzi 17, 2012, Kuverenga

2:14	Hama dzangu, zvinobatsirei kana munhu achiti ane kutenda, asi haana mabasa? Kutenda kwaizogona sei kumuponesa?
2:15	Saka kana hama kana hanzvadzi yakashama uye ichishayiwa zvokudya zuva rimwe nerimwe,
2:16	uye kana mumwe wenyu akati kwavari: “Enda norugare, mudziyirwe uye muremekedzwe,” asi musavapa izvo zvinodikanwa nomuviri, izvi zvinobatsirei?
2:17	Nokudaro kunyange kutenda, kana isina mabasa, akafa, mukati uye pachayo.
2:18	Zvino mumwe munhu angati: “Iwe une kutenda, uye ndine mabasa. Ndiratidze kutenda kwako kusina mabasa! Asi ini ndichakuratidza kutenda kwangu namabasa.
2:19	You believe that there is one God. You do well. But the demons also believe, and they tremble greatly.
2:20	Saka zvino, 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.

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