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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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 2:20 : 20 But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?
  • Jas 2:17 : 17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
  • Luke 23:46 : 46 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.
  • Acts 7:59-60 : 59 They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed,“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” 60 Then he fell to his knees and cried out with a loud voice,“Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he died.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath, 15 all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
  • Jas 2:14 : 14 Faith and Works Together 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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 2:14-22
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    14Faith and Works Together 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?

    15If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

    16and one of you says to them,“Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?

    17So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

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

    19You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that– and tremble with fear.

    20But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

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

    22You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.

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

    25And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

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

    28For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

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

    11Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

  • Rom 4:4-6
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    4Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

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

    6So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

  • Rom 8:13
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    13(for 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 are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

    9it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

  • Gal 3:5-6
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    5Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

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

  • Gal 2:16
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    16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

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

    12But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

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

    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

  • Heb 11:6
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    6Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

  • Rom 6:7
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    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.

  • Rom 7:5
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

  • Heb 11:1
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    1People Commended for Their Faith Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”

  • 1 Cor 15:16
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    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 declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about– but not before God.

  • Eph 2:5
    67%

    5even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–

  • 2 Cor 5:7
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    7for we live by faith, not by sight.

  • Col 2:12
    67%

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

  • Rom 2:12
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    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Rom 8:6
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    6For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

  • Rom 6:23
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    23For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Heb 11:31
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    31By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

  • Rom 11:6
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    6And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

  • Rom 10:8
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    8But what does it say?“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”(that is, the word of faith that we preach),

  • Rom 6:11
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    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

  • Jas 1:22
    66%

    22But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

  • Heb 11:4
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    4By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.