James 2:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ 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)

²⁶ For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Common English Bible

²⁶ As the lifeless body is dead, so faith without actions is dead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

James 2:26 Cross References

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is worthless?

James 2:17

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

James 2:14

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Luke 23:46

Then Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Isaiah 2:22

[[Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?]]

Psalm 146:4

When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.