Is believing in Faith Alone essential for your salvation?

Is believing in Faith Alone essential for your salvation considering that Scripture says:
James 2:17

King James Version (KJV)
¹⁷Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

And:
James 2:24

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²⁴Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

And:
Romans 2:13

King James Version (KJV)
¹³(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

And:
2 Peter 1:5

King James Version (KJV)
⁵And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

Well, is it? Is believing in Faith Alone essential for your salvation?

Sincerely,

De Maria