Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without the works is dead.
New American Standard Bible
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also
King James Version
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Holman Bible
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
International Standard Version
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without actions is also dead.
American Standard Version
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
Amplified
For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.
An Understandable Version
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without [good] deeds is dead.
Anderson New Testament
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Bible in Basic English
For as the body without the spirit is dead even so faith without works is dead.
Common New Testament
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Daniel Mace New Testament
as the body then without the soul is a meer carcase, so faith without its effects is lifeless.
Darby Translation
For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Godbey New Testament
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith also apart from works is dead.
Goodspeed New Testament
Just as the body without the spirit is dead, faith is dead without good deeds.
John Wesley New Testament
Therefore as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Julia Smith Translation
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
King James 2000
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Modern King James verseion
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For as the body without the spirit is dead, even so faith without deeds is dead.
Moffatt New Testament
For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.
Montgomery New Testament
So just as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.
NET Bible
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
New Heart English Bible
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
Noyes New Testament
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Sawyer New Testament
For as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
The Emphasized Bible
Just as, the body, apart from spirit, is dead, so, our faith also, apart from works, is dead.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For as the body without breath is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Exactly as a body is dead without a spirit, so faith is dead without actions.
Webster
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Weymouth New Testament
For just as a human body without a spirit is lifeless, so also faith is lifeless if it is unaccompanied by obedience.
Williams New Testament
Just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without good deeds is dead.
World English Bible
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
Worrell New Testament
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.
Worsley New Testament
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Youngs Literal Translation
for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.
Themes
The Dead » Illustrative of » Faith without works
The Dead » Characterized by » Being without the spirit
Faith » Without fruits, is dead
Topics
Interlinear
Choris
χωρίς
Choris
Usage: 38
Pneuma
Esti
ἐστί
Esti
Usage: 585
Pistis
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 2:26
Images James 2:26
Prayers for James 2:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Faith And Works
25 And likewise also was not Rahab the harlot made righteous from works, having received the agents, and having sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without the works is dead.
Cross References
James 2:20
But do thou want to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
James 2:17
So also faith, if it has no works, is dead by itself.
Job 34:14-15
If he sets his heart upon himself, [if] he gathers his spirit and his breath to himself,
Psalm 104:29
Thou hide thy face, they are troubled. Thou take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Psalm 146:4
His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth. In that very day his thoughts perish.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?
Luke 23:46
And Jesus, having sounded out in a great voice, said, Father, into thy hands I entrust my spirit. And having said these things, he expired.
Acts 7:59-60
And they stoned Stephen, who was calling and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
James 2:14
What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him?