remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
The distinctions here enumerated from the sacred text are the key to understanding what Paul meant by "not justified by works," and what James meant by "justified by works" (James 2:24), there being in no sense any element of contradiction, there being two utterly different classes of works under consideration by the two sacred writers.