"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. {spirit: or, breath}" — James 2:26

James 2:26 · KJV

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. {spirit: or, breath}”

— James 2:26

Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent {them} out another way?

James 2 — Context

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent {them} out another way?

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. {spirit: or, breath}

Cross References

James 2:20

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

James 2:17

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. {alone: Gr. by itself}

James 2:14

What {doth it} profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Psalms 104:29

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Job 34:14-15

If he set his heart upon man, {if} he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; {man: Heb. him}

Acts 7:59-60

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon {God}, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath {is} in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?