26For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-26)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. To let them see, therefore, what a wretched foundation they built their hopes upon, it is here proved at lar…
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