But someone will say, “You have faith; I take action.” If you do have faith, the only way to show it is by the action it produces. But when I take action, that will show you the faith I have.
If anyone among you is wise and understanding, they should show it by living a good life and doing things with the humility that comes from being wise.
If a person believes in Christ Jesus, it doesn’t matter whether they’re circumcised or not. The only thing that matters is faith expressing itself through love.
But whoever has doubts about something they might eat is guilty if they do eat it. That’s because they don’t believe that they should be eating it, and if you do something even though you don’t believe you should, that’s sin.
Without faith it’s impossible to please God, because those who come to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who try hard to find him.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all the secret things of God and know everything about him, and if I have enough faith to move mountains, but I don’t have love, I’m nothing at all.
Dear friends, since we have these promises from God, let’s purify ourselves from everything that could make our bodies and spirits impure. Let’s be completely holy, to honor God.
King David says the same thing when he tells us how blessed people are when God makes them right with himself. They’re blessed because they don’t have to do anything to make that happen. David says,