rsv James:2:20-23
rsv@James:2:20 @ Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?
rsv@James:2:21 @ Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
rsv@James:2:22 @ You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works,
rsv@James:2:23 @ and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God.