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

²⁰ Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is worthless?^[a]

¹⁷ So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

Faith without Works Is Dead

¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it?^(A)

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath^[a] returns to God who gave it.^(A)