James 2:26
Good News Translation
So then, as the body without the spirit is dead, also faith without actions is dead.

New Revised Standard Version
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.

Contemporary English Version
Anyone who doesn't breathe is dead, and faith that doesn't do anything is just as dead!

New American Bible
For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith without works is dead.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith without works is dead.

as.

Job 34:14,15 If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself. . . .

Psalm 104:29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Luke 23:46 And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.

Acts 7:59,60 And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. . . .

spirit.

James 2:14,17,20 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? . . .

Context
Faith and Works
25And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers and sending them out another way? 26For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith without works is dead.
Cross References
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

James 2:17
So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

James 2:20
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

James 2:25
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