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)

⁴⁶ Then Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last.^(A)

⁵⁹ While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”^{(A) 60} Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he died.^[a](B)