James 2:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For as the human body apart from the spirit is lifeless, so faith apart from [its] works of obedience is also dead.

American Standard Version (1901)

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Common English Bible

As the lifeless body is dead, so faith without actions is dead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

James 2:26 Cross References

Psalm 104:29

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath they die, And return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Luke 23:46

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the ghost.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

James 2:14

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

James 2:17

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

James 2:20

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?