"Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself." - James 2:17
"For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead." - James 2:26
Still and always, the problem for Paulism in St. James’s Epistle..
How do you guys know when you did enough good works? Or good enough ones?
Now, if you could just figure it out and put it all together...
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Salvation is by grace thru faith, alone...AFTER you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, your works will be evident by Jesus Christ working in and thru you...
1Ti 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.