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James 2:26 KJV
James · chapter 2 · verse 26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.James 2:26 · King James Version
James 2:26 in context
24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
26For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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- withoutchōrisseparate, apart, without any, besidesG5565 →
- spiritpneumathe third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father…G4151 →
- faithpistisconviction of the truth of anything, belief in the NT of a conviction or belief…G4102 →
- worksergonbusiness, employment, that which any one is occupied, that which one undertakes to do…G2041 →
- bodysōmathe body both of men or animals, a dead body or corpse, the living body, of animals, the…G4983 →
- deadnekrosproperly, one that has breathed his last, lifeless, deceased, departed, one whose soul is…G3498 →
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In this latter part of the chapter, the apostle shows the error of those who rested in a bare profession of the Christian faith, as if that would save them, while the temper of their minds and the tenour of their lives were altogether disagreeable to that holy religion which they professed.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-26