It’s in my radar
My Bible here says : For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.
There is no word ‘‘alone’’ in it.
If someone has a bible with the words “faith alone” together, then the bible is corrupt and adulterated, in error and uninspired.
Interestingly enough…I got curious and did a search on the words “faith alone” in the Douay-Rheims on-line Catholic Bible and here is the link to the search results:
drbo.org/cgi-bin/s?t=0&q=faith+alone&b=drb
Here is the search result statement:
All 2 words: faith alone were not found in a verse.
My instinct, without having got so far to look at it specifically yet, is that the works referred to here are the works of the OLD law, before Christ came, and gave us new laws in the NT. But there must surely be works of faith, not works of law, which can be evidenced - by their fruits you will know them seems to tie up with this. Faith will produce works - it must.
You are correct on both counts…and as James stated:
**20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
26 For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.
17 So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
18 But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without works; and I will show thee, by works, my faith.**
Even in Revelations “works” are spoken of:
**19 I know thy works, and thy faith, and thy charity, and thy ministry, and thy patience, and thy last works which are more than the former.
12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.**
Even the Book of Wisdom…one of the Apocryphal books they are mentioned:
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11 For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.**
