James 2:26

Acts 7:59; Acts 7:60; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 2:22; James 2:14; James 2:17; James 2:20; Job 34:14; Job 34:15; Luke 23:46; Psalms 104:29; Psalms 146:4

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For as the body without the spirit is dead - Margin, “breath.” The Greek word πνεύμα pneuma is commonly used to denote spirit or soul, as re...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(14) For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. (14) The conclusion repeated again: faith does not bring forth...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The surface contradiction between James and Paul, which made Luther call this an epistle of straw, and the Tü bingen critics hail it as a Judaist's a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the . Omit. spirit . App-101. See Authorized Version m., and compare Genesis 2:7 . so, &c . = so faith also.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. For as the body without the spirit is dead - There can be no more a...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For as the body, &c.— "And on such principles must all others expect justification and salvation; for as the body, without the spirit, is but...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Faith is a spiritual thing: works material. Hence, we might e...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Warnings Against Respect of Persons. Belief and Practice 1. Another instance of inconsistency. Jesus Christ the Lord of glory ] better, 'Jesu...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Without ] better, 'apart from.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(14-26) FAITH AND WORKS. — We now enter on the most debatable ground of the Epistle; a battle-field strewn with the bones and weapons of countless ad...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As the body without the spirit... — A closing simile of much force, As the body without the spirit, so faith without works. But the term “without...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 12 FAITH AND WORKS: THREE VIEWS OF THE RELATION, OF THE TEACHING OF ST. JAMES TO THE TEACHING OF ST. PAUL-THE RELATION OF LUTHER TO BOTH....
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deeds the Evidence of Faith James 2:14-26 The Apostle is speaking here of a faith that does not result in a changed life. It is the faith which...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proceeding, James dealt with the effect of faith on conduct. It makes it impossible to show any respect of persons on the ground of the possession of...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? (15) If a brother or sister be naked, and d...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS Oh! for grace, while reading what God the Holy Ghost hath said in this Chapter, in reproving any respect of persons, in his house of pra...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

FAITH AND WORKS ‘Can faith save him?… Faith without works is dead.’ James 2:14 ; James 2:26 Salvation through faith is one of the most prom...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For as the body without the spirit is dead ,.... This simile is made use of to illustrate what the apostle had asserted in James 2:17 that as a bo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Ver. 26. As the body, &c. ] Yet is not charity the soul of f...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Likewise also , &c. After Abraham, the father of the Jews, the apostle cites Rahab, a woman and a sinner of the Gentiles, to show that in every...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The first 13 verses of this chapter form a second division of the book, dealing with the faith of Christ as being above all personal considerations,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Faith and Works. A. D. 61. 14 What doth i...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The spirit: this may be understood either, according to the marginal reading, of the breath; and then the sense is, that life and breath being inse...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Reply Comes, ‘But Surely If We Have Faith That Is Enough. Will We Not Be Seen To Be Righteous Because We Have Faith In Christ? Then Surely It Do...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.' Then he comes to his final conclusion. Just like the body i...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 2:24 . By works. —That is, by the acts which indicate faith to be a reality, and alive. James 2:26 . Dead...
Sermon Bible Commentary

James 2:26 Justification by Faith. I. Justification by faith is in fact a doctrine belonging of necessity to all true religion, and not to the Ch...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 2:1 . Have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. See James 1:1 . The whole of this chapter tu...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION James 2:1-59 WARNING AGAINST RESPECT OF PERSONS . James 2:1 The translation is doubtful, two renderings being po...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The example of Abraham and Rahab:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Far as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. In bringing examples from the Old Testament to illustrate his arg...

²⁶ For as the body without the spirite is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Related Commentaries of James 2:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

James 2:26