Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." (James 2:17, 18 NASB)
The whole works and faith thing can be confusing. Your works or deeds don't give you faith but you can't have faith without them. The band Sanctus Real tries to help us understand it.
If you don't have deeds you have nothing at all
If you don't have faith your deeds will fall
They can't be true without each other
You can't have one without the other
The way I see it: we don't do deeds for salvation, we do deeds because of salvation.
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