James 2:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ 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

When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4

When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Isaiah 2:22

Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

Luke 23:46

Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love.

James 2:14

What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?

James 2:17

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

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?