Quotes about Action
What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
- James 2:14
If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?
- James 2:16
So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.
- James 2:17
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.
- James 2:18
O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?
- James 2:20
Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
- James 2:21
You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.
- James 2:22
As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone.
- James 2:24
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?
- James 2:25
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
- James 2:26
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
- James 4:17
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- 1 Peter 1:13