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James 2:14 NRSV

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you?

James 2:15 NRSV

If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food,

James 2:16 NRSV

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?

James 2:17 NRSV

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

James 2:25 NRSV

Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another road?

Exodus 22:21 NRSV

You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22 NRSV

You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.

Exodus 22:23 NRSV

If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry;

Exodus 22:24 NRSV

my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.

Exodus 22:25 NRSV

If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.

Exodus 22:26 NRSV

If you take your neighbor’s cloak in pawn, you shall restore it before the sun goes down;

Exodus 22:27 NRSV

for it may be your neighbor’s only clothing to use as cover; in what else shall that person sleep? And if your neighbor cries out to me, I will listen, for I am compassionate.