Cross References

James 2:26

New English Translation

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

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When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

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

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he breathed his last.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?