Parallel Verses
Amplified
For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also 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.
A Conservative Version
For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without the works is dead.
American Standard Version
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is 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
In the same way, was Rahab the prostitute not justified by works too, when she received the [Hebrew]
Cross References
James 2:20
But are you willing to recognize, you foolish [spiritually shallow] person, that faith without [good] works is useless?
James 2:17
So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].
Job 34:14-15
“If God should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself [that is, withdraw from man] His [life-giving] spirit and His breath,
Psalm 104:29
You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their breath, they die
And return to their dust.
Psalm 146:4
When his spirit leaves him, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts and plans perish.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Isaiah 2:22
Stop regarding man, whose breath [of life] is in his nostrils [for so little time];
For why should he be esteemed?
Luke 23:46
And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said,
Acts 7:59-60
They continued stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive and accept and welcome my spirit!”
James 2:14
What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient—genuine faith produces good works.]