²³ because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

²⁶ `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

²⁷ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

³¹ And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

³² And lo, thou `art' to them as a singer of doting loves, A pleasant voice, and playing well on an instrument, And they have heard thy words, and they are not doing them.

⁴⁷ Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;

¹⁴ What `is' the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

¹⁵ and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,

¹⁶ and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what `is' the profit?

¹⁷ so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

¹⁸ But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

¹⁹ thou -- thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

²⁰ And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?

²¹ Abraham our father -- was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

²² dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?

²³ and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

²⁴ Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

²⁵ and in like manner also Rahab the harlot -- was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?

²⁶ for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

¹⁶ `The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah -- we are not hearkening unto thee;

⁷ and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him, if on the sabbath he will heal, that they might find an accusation against him.