11. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12. So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.
13. For judgment is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
14. What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?
15. If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food,
16. and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17. Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
18. Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will shew thee my faith.
19. Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and shudder.
20. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?
21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?