24 There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;
25for apart from him* who can eat or who can have enjoyment?
26For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.*
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14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters,* if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? 15If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 16and 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? 17So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
18 But someone will say, You have faith and I have works. Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
19You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believeand shudder.
20Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith without works is barren?
21Was not our ancestor Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
22You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was brought to completion by the works.
23Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.
24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
25Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another road?
26For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.
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