What kind of faith do you have? James 2:14-26 teaches that true faith should move us to action.
At the heart of James' argument is a call for believers to have faith in action. If they don't, it's as worthless as telling a starving, freezing person "God bless you!" instead of buying them a meal and a coat. He argues again and again that faith without works is dead. It belongs in the morgue rather than in the sanctuary. To combat this false ideology that it is possible to have true faith and that faith does not move you to action (2:14), James deals with this through logical conclusions and Old Testament examples. This passage doesn't teach that works save us, but that our works reveal that we believe what we say we believe - as the examples of Abraham and Rahab show.
