James 2:17,18 - Are works really necessary if a person has faith?

Answer 1

works are important no matter what you are.
Can you be a mother if you don't work to give birth and then work to raise the child?
Can you be a welder if you never get off the chair?
Can you be a good Christian if you never open a bible and share your knowledge with others as Jesus taught us?

You must have works to show your intentions. Then God rewards you with everlasting life.
Do we do it just for the life? No.
We do it because we love one another. But God holds the prize like a carrot in front of a rabbit.
He promises us to drink from the waters of life if we do the works befitting repentence. ..And we have faith that he is telling the truth.

I want to live. I want to be in that paradise. I want all of my family and friends to be there also.
I have much work to do.

Answer 2

This scripture you have on here says that faith without works is dead.

It can't be taken any other way. As it's from God, then, YES, we must have works with our faith. If a person has faith but never does anything to help his fellow man, would you want to be friends with that kind of person? I sure wouldn't.

Our works show our faith, which is what verse 18 says in those scriptures.

Good question, by the way.

Answer 3

Because the faith is only known through the work, or at least the intention to do so.

Loving and forgiving for example are works of the faith, because if you say you have faith and you have not love, your faith is empty. It was said that love is the greatest, because you might loose the faith in the belly of the beast, but you would show love and sacrifice yourself to save a child.

So some say we are saved by faith only, but reading carefully, we are saved also by love, because there where true love is there is not injustice because God is love.

And another point: If someone says not to believe in God but he shows love in his heart to take care of the needed, and not to judge, and live a live with candor, then his conscience does not confess Jesus but his spirit is spirit is to find favor in the eyes of God.

1 Corinthians
Chapter 13
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1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues 2 but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
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And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
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If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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3 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
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it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
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it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
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It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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4 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
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For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
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but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
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At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
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5 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Answer 4

No works of any kind will save you. Faith is the only necessary thing.

That being said, It is our obligation as fellow humans to be of service to other humans or animals in need.

Christian or not. we are all family and must help each other. If you do have the faith, then you must understand that we are all God`s kids. You should help your brothers and sisters. You should feel the real need to help..

God bless from Texas <><

Answer 5

Paul makes it clear here that works are not necessary for salvation, but a product of salvation. If one claims he is saved, then you will be able to see this by his works.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

James was making sure that this teaching was understood. Faith without any sign of faith is dead; therefore, the faithful believer is also a faithful doer.

Answer 6

Not by works ALONE!
James 2:17
Even so faith, if it hath not works , is dead, being alone .

John 12:36
Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light." When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.

Answer 7

bot a requirement but rather a fulfillment. in the Rcc we are taught that you are to show your faith through works as it says in the bible. you are to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. once you have accepted Christ into your life you are to DO unto others - this is an action of works.

Answer 8

Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were JUDGED EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS!

Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law [are] just before Yahweh, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Jam 1:22 But be ye doers of the Law (word), and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.


Mat 25:26 His Teacher answered and said unto him, [Thou] WICKED and SLOTHFUL SERVANT, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

Answer 9

How can you be filled with the love of Christ and not do works?
Jesus works in my life, through faith in me, how could I not do works because of my faith in him?

Answer 10

Works are not necessary but you show your faith through your works.

Anyone who truly believes in God would be pretty stupid to not do what God wants us to do.