James 2:26

For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.

James 2:20

But are you willing to recognize, you foolish [spiritually shallow] person, that faith without [good] works is useless?

James 2:17

So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].

Job 34:14-15

“If God should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself [that is, withdraw from man] His [life-giving] spirit and His breath,

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their breath, they die
And return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4

When his spirit leaves him, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts and plans perish.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Isaiah 2:22

Stop regarding man, whose breath [of life] is in his nostrils [for so little time];
For why should he be esteemed?

Luke 23:46

And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit!” Having said this, He breathed His last.

Acts 7:59-60

They continued stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive and accept and welcome my spirit!”

What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient—genuine faith produces good works.]

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