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Faith
      1 What does it profit if one says he has faith and
      has not works? Can faith save him? If a brother

      or sister be naked and destitute of daily food,
      and one of you say to them, Depart in peace,
      be warmed and filled; and you don’t give them
      those  things  which  are  needful  to  the  body;
      what does it profit? Even so, faith, if it has

      not works it is dead, being alone. Yes, a man
      may  say,  you  have  faith,  and  I  have  works:
      show  me  your  faith  without  works,  and  I  will
      show you my faith by my works.


      If  you  believe  that  there  is  one  God,  you  do
      well:  the  devils  also  believe  and  tremble.
      But you know that faith without works is dead.
      2 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing

      by the word of God. 3 Your faith should not
      stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of
      God. 4 Scripture has concluded we are all under
      sin,  so  the  promise  by  faith  of  Jesus  Christ
      might be given to all those who believe.


      But before faith came, we were kept under the
      law, closed to the faith which should afterward
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