James 2:26

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 2:20 : 20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
  • Jas 2:17 : 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
  • Luke 23:46 : 46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.
  • Acts 7:59-60 : 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath, 15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
  • Jas 2:14 : 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

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  • Jas 2:14-22
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    14What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

    15And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

    16and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

    17Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

    18Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

    19You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

    20But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

    21Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

    22You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

  • Jas 2:24-25
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    24You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

    25In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

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

    28We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Rom 8:10-11
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    10If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

    11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

  • Rom 4:4-6
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    4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

    5But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

    6Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12So then death works in us, but life in you.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

  • Rom 8:13
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    13For if you live after the flesh, you must 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 that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

    9not of works, that no one would boast.

  • Gal 3:5-6
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    5He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

    6Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

  • Gal 2:16
    69%

    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

    12The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

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

    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

  • Heb 11:6
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    6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

  • Rom 6:7
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    7For he who has died has been freed from sin.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

  • Rom 7:5
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

  • Heb 11:1
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    1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

  • 1 Cor 15:16
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    16For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised.

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

  • Eph 2:5
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    5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

  • 2 Cor 5:7
    67%

    7for we walk by faith, not by sight.

  • Col 2:12
    67%

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

  • Rom 2:12
    67%

    12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Rom 8:6
    67%

    6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

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

  • Heb 11:31
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    31By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

  • Rom 11:6
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    6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

  • 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, which we preach:

  • Rom 6:11
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    11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Jas 1:22
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    22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

  • Heb 11:4
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    4By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.