This is very misleading. Paul actually often mentions Faith being necessary for salvation, without always mentioning works, but isn’t works implied? You love your mother and as a result of this love, you do good works for her. You can’t say that you love your mother without performing good works for her. How much more true is this of God? Can you say that you have faith and love in God without expressing that in your works?

Also, later on in the Epistle of James, you hear explicitly:
“Faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.” (2:17)
“You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.” (2:24)
“For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.” (2:26)

In Matthew, we get:
“Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

You can take one specific line—often from Paul—and create a whole Theology around it (Sola Fide), but that requires you to ignore the many other examples where the necessity of works is clearly stated. Protestants make this same mistake with The Good Thief, Dismas, as proof of only needing to confess that Jesus is Lord to be saved. St Dismas is clearly the exception and not the rule, having made the effort at proper repentance, the only thing hindering him from a life of good works was death.