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James 2:26

James 2:26

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

For as the body without the spirit is dead,.... This simile is made use of to illustrate what the apostle had asserted in that as a body, when the spirit or soul is departed from it, or the breath is gone out of it, is dead, and without motion, and useless; which the Jews express in like manner,xwr alb Pwg rgp, "the body without the spirit", or "breath, is a carcass".

So faith without works is dead also: a vain thing, useless and unprofitable, can neither justify, nor save, nor prove that a man is justified, or will be saved. Ohel. Moed, fol. 15. 1.

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