James 2:26

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

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  • Jas 2:20 : 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith without works is useless?
  • Jas 2:17 : 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
  • Luke 23:46 : 46 Then Jesus called out with a loud voice, 'Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.' And when He had said this, He breathed His last.
  • Acts 7:59-60 : 59 While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' 60 Then he fell to his knees and cried out, 'Lord, do not hold this sin against them.' When he had said this, he fell asleep.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If He were to set His heart to it and gather to Himself His spirit and breath, 15 all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.
  • Jas 2:14 : 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 2:14-22
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    14What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

    15If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food,

    16and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, keep warm and be well fed,' but does not provide for their physical needs, what good is it?

    17In the same way, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

    18But someone will say, 'You have faith, and I have works.' Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

    19You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

    20Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith without works is useless?

    21Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

    22You see that his faith was working together with his works, and by works his faith was made perfect.

  • Jas 2:24-25
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    24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

    25In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another route?

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By the law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

    28For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Rom 8:10-11
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    10But if Christ is in you, even though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

    11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who lives in you.

  • Rom 4:4-6
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    4Now to the one who works, wages are not counted as a gift but as an obligation.

    5But to the one who does not work but believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

    6Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • 2 Cor 4:12
    71%

    12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1And you were dead in your transgressions and sins.

  • Rom 8:13
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    13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

  • Eph 2:8-9
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    8For by grace you have been saved through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

    9not by works, so that no one can boast.

  • Gal 3:5-6
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    5Does God supply the Spirit to you and work miracles among you by works of the law or by hearing with faith?

    6Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

  • Gal 2:16
    69%

    16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.'

    12The law is not based on faith; instead, it says, 'The person who does these things will live by them.'

  • Gal 5:5-6
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    5For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.

  • Heb 11:6
    68%

    6And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever comes to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

  • Rom 6:7
    68%

    7For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
    68%

    6For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they may be judged according to human standards in the body but live according to God in the spirit.

  • Rom 7:5
    68%

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

  • Heb 11:1
    67%

    1Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

  • Rom 1:17
    67%

    17For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.'

  • 1 Cor 15:16
    67%

    16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.

  • Eph 2:5
    67%

    5made us alive together with Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions—by grace you have been saved.

  • 2 Cor 5:7
    67%

    7(For we live by faith, not by sight.)

  • Col 2:12
    67%

    12Having been buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

  • Rom 2:12
    67%

    12For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Rom 8:6
    67%

    6The mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace.

  • Rom 6:23
    67%

    23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Heb 11:31
    67%

    31By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had welcomed the spies in peace.

  • Rom 11:6
    66%

    6And if by grace, then it is no longer based on works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

  • Rom 10:8
    66%

    8But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the message of faith that we proclaim):

  • Rom 6:11
    66%

    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Jas 1:22
    66%

    22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

  • Heb 11:4
    66%

    4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God testifying about his gifts; and through faith, even though he is dead, he still speaks.