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What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?

You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works,

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good life let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

And if you invoke as Father him who judges each one impartially according to his deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

He committed no sin; no guile was found on his lips.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

For "He that would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile;

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil."

But rejoice in so far as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you.

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature.

For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.