Jas 2:26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. {spirit: or, breath}
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But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. {alone: Gr. by itself}
What {doth it} profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon {God}, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
If he set his heart upon man, {if} he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; {man: Heb. him}
Cease ye from man, whose breath {is} in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. {alone: Gr. by itself}
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
What {doth it} profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. {keep...: or, hold fast} {what: Gr. by what speech}
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
They on the rock {are they}, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
And it came to pass after these things, {that} the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this {man} hath done?
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. {life: Gr. breath}