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because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance;

But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind;

Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you?

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is barren?

You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was brought to completion by the works.

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

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

The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.

who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God.

Resist him, steadfast in your faith, for you know that your brothers and sisters in all the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith as precious as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge,

for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith.

Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.