What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead
“Well, either way, people who are saved do good works. And if they don’t their Faith is for nothing i.e. dead”
It’s not either way... have all the works you want, but you will still go to Hell. Faith is what saves and is also what produces works. Study the verse below and you will realize it’s not either way, but only one way.
1 Corinthians 3:14-15 King James Version (KJV)
14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.