James 2:26 - The Scriptures 1998

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

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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

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face, they are alarmed; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust;

Psalm 146:4

His spirit goes out, he returns to his earth; In that day his plans perish.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Isaiah 2:22

Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for in what is he to be reckoned upon?

Luke 23:46

And crying out with a loud voice, יהושע  said, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” And having said this, He breathed His last.

Galatians 5:6

For in Messiah יהושע  neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but belief working through love.

James 2:14

My brothers, what use is it for anyone to say he has belief but does not have works? This belief is unable to save him.

James 2:17

So also belief, if it does not have works, is in itself dead.

James 2:20

But do you wish to know, O foolish man, that the belief without the works is dead?