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This passage is the crux for the Letter of James. Just what is the relationship between faith and works? The apparent contradiction between James' message and that of Paul is cleared up when we see that the gospel Paul preached, salvation by grace through faith and not by works, was actually approved by James himself (Gal. 2, Acts 15). They don’t disagree. What we see here with James is that real biblical faith, the kind of faith that saves, will always show up in our actions. James shows what salvation looks like on the outside but he never claims that we can have it without faith. We need to examine our lives to see if there is the fruit related to salvation. If there isn’t we may be deceived, our faith is not genuine and we are not really saved.