WELS Q&A - Doctrine - Law/Gospel "Paul is writing to people who said that faith in Jesus alone does not save a person, but one has to also obey God's law in order to be justified（Gal 3:3 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, 5:4 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆））. To counter the false idea that what we do in keeping the law must be added to faith in what Christ did for us. Paul often emphasizes in his letters（esp. Galatians, Romans, Colossians）that we are saved by grace through faith alone. James is writing to people who felt that believing in Jesus saved a person, but that having faith did not mean that a person necessarily would keep God's commandments out of love for God（James 2:14 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, 17 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆））. To show that faith is not really faith unless it leads a person to thank God for salvation in a life of glad and willing obedience to God's holy will. James emphasized that a faith which did not show that it was living faith was really not faith at all."
Meier, Edward P., The Nature of True Faith: An Exegesis of James 2 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, "[W]orks proved that his faith was active. But can the objector show faith without works? James knew what Matthew had said in the seventh chapter, 'Ye shall know them by their fruits.'"
Meier, Edward P., The Nature of True Faith: An Exegesis of James 2 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, "James here also shoots down the false doctrine of work-righteousness. The only way to be free of sin is to keep the law perfectly and in its entirety. If we offend it in the slightest, tiniest little way, we are guilty of all."
WELS Q&A - Doctrine - Law/Gospel "Paul is writing to people who said that faith in Jesus alone does not save a person, but one has to also obey God's law in order to be justified（Gal 3:3 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, 5:4 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆））. To counter the false idea that what we do in keeping the law must be added to faith in what Christ did for us. Paul often emphasizes in his letters（esp. Galatians, Romans, Colossians）that we are saved by grace through faith alone. James is writing to people who felt that believing in Jesus saved a person, but that having faith did not mean that a person necessarily would keep God's commandments out of love for God（James 2:14 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, 17 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆））. To show that faith is not really faith unless it leads a person to thank God for salvation in a life of glad and willing obedience to God's holy will. James emphasized that a faith which did not show that it was living faith was really not faith at all."
Meier, Edward P., The Nature of True Faith: An Exegesis of James 2 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, "James uses Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac, which took place approximately twenty years later, as proof of the saving faith that was alive in Abraham’s heart."
Meier, Edward P., The Nature of True Faith: An Exegesis of James 2 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, "[W]orks proved that his faith was active. But can the objector show faith without works? James knew what Matthew had said in the seventh chapter, 'Ye shall know them by their fruits.'"
Meier, Edward P., The Nature of True Faith: An Exegesis of James 2 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, "James here also shoots down the false doctrine of work-righteousness. The only way to be free of sin is to keep the law perfectly and in its entirety. If we offend it in the slightest, tiniest little way, we are guilty of all."
Meier, Edward P., The Nature of True Faith: An Exegesis of James 2 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, "James uses Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac, which took place approximately twenty years later, as proof of the saving faith that was alive in Abraham’s heart."
