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Context, af....context.

Abram was declared righteous because he believed God. His faith was first....then came his "works" when he was willing to offer Isaac.....because he believed God.

Notice that even after he believed God, Abram still sinned...yet, he is in the Hebrews "Hall of Fame".

In context, it is a simple Hebrew text. It does not say that Abram had faith (that passage, alluded to in your post, comes later in Genesis, after perhaps 25 years, when Abram was living in the land of Canaan and prayed to the LORD about being childless). In this first text it says that he did what God told him to do. The LORD told Abram to leave, promised him the blessing, and Avram obeyed (left). His faith was accompanied by, and evident in, his works. Faith without works is dead. We further know from the epistle to the Hebrews that Abram did this first work of obedience (the big move) by faith.

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

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By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Genesis, Catholic chapter twelve, Protestant verses one to four ,
Hebrews, Catholic chapter eleven, Protestant verse eight,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

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>> “His faith was accompanied by, and evident in, his works. Faith without works is dead.” <<

Absolutely!

This fact is evident throughout all of scripture; the reward comes only after the obedient action.