James 2:26

James chapter 2 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.25And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

v.26This passage

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • James 2:14

    What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

  • Ecclesiastes 12:7

    and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

  • Luke 23:46

    And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the ghost.

  • James 2:17

    Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

  • James 2:20

    But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

  • Isaiah 2:22

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