¹⁷ Even so faith without works is dead.

²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead even so faith without works is dead.

⁵ But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

¹⁴ What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?

¹⁹ You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.

²⁰ Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

⁶ And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

⁸ For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

¹³ But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

³ And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

³ Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;