John Trapp Complete Commentary
James 2:26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Ver. 26. As the body, &c.] Yet is not charity the soul of faith, but the vital spirit only.
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Ver. 26. As the body, &c.] Yet is not charity the soul of faith, but the vital spirit only.
Verse James 2:26. _FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD_] There can be no more a _genuine faith_ without _good works_, than there can be a living human body without a soul. WE shall never find...
FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD - Margin, “breath.” The Greek word πνεύμα pneuma is commonly used to denote spirit or soul, as referring to the intelligent nature. The meaning here is the...
II. THE ROYAL LAW: FAITH AND WORKS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The faith of Christ with respect to persons (James 2:1)_ 2. The royal law (James 2:6) 3. Faith must be manifested by works (James 2:14)...
The surface contradiction between James and Paul, which made Luther call this an epistle of straw, and the Tü bingen critics hail it as a Judaist's attack upon Paulinism, troubles no one now, simply b...
Do you wish for proof, you empty creature, that faith without deeds is ineffective? Our father Abraham was proved righteous in consequence of deeds, when he was ready to offer Isaac his son upon the a...
My brothers, what use is it if a man claims to have faith and has no deeds to show? Are you going to claim that his faith is able to save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear, and if they h...
RESPECT OF PERSONS (James 2:1) _ 2:1 My brothers, you cannot really believe that you have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, and yet continue to have respect of persons._ Respect of persons is...
THE. Omit. SPIRIT. App-101. See Authorized Version m., and compare Genesis 2:7. SO, &C. = so faith also....
Justification by Faith and Works 14. _though a man say he hath faith_ The section on which we now enter has been the battle-field of almost endless controversies. It led Luther in the boldness of a ze...
_For as the body without the spirit is dead_ Some MSS. omit the conjunction, but the evidence for retaining it preponderates. The reasoning seems to refer Rahab's justification by works to the wider l...
ὭΣΠΕΡ ΤῸ ΣΩ͂ΜΑ ΧΩΡῚΣ ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΟΣ κ.τ.λ. The illustration is important. The union of faith and works is as close as the union of body and spirit. In each case the union is that which we call life. Separa...
14–26. THE RELATION BETWEEN ΠΊΣΤΙΣ AND ἜΡΓΑ:—a subject suggested by the preceding paragraph, but also probably by one of the questions referred to St James for solution. Such questions were frequently...
_GOD ILLUSTRATED SAVING FAITH -- JAMES 2:19-26:_ The demons prove that a faith that does not reflect itself in works cannot save. "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils als...
ΓΆΡ (G1063) ибо. Частица используется для ввода доказательства. Связь между ст. 25 и 26 следующая: Раав была оправдана своими делами, она не могла быть оправдана иначе, потому что вера без дел мертва....
FOR AS THE BODY, &C.— "And on such principles must all others expect justification and salvation; _for as the body, without the spirit,_ is but a _dead_ carcase, how fair and entire soever it may appe...
FAITH MUST HAVE WORKS (EXAMPLE NO. 3) _Text 2:25-26_ James 2:25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by her works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out anoth...
CHAPTER V. _THE DEVIL'S FAITH_ James 2:14-26 _Introduction_ Faith has come to mean some kind of magic word by which men shall do the impossible, even to the acquisition of heaven. The word really m...
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Faith is a spiritual thing: works material. Hence, we might expect faith to answer to the spirit: works to the body....
VERSE 26 FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD, SO FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD ALSO. Your own observation shows you, and you never doubt it for a moment, that the human body is dead when the spir...
20 The case of Abraham is most helpful in further defining the distinct viewpoints of Paul and James. The former refers us to the fifteenth chapter of Genesis, the latter to the twenty-second. In the...
WARNINGS AGAINST RESPECT OF PERSONS. BELIEF AND PRACTICE 1. Another instance of inconsistency. JESUS CHRIST _the Lord_ OF GLORY] better, 'Jesus Christ the glory,' or 'the glorious one,' One of the ra...
WITHOUT] better, 'apart from.'...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 2 RESPECT OF PERSONS 2:1-7 V1 My Christian brothers and sisters, you trust th...
AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT... — A closing simile of much force, _As the body without the spirit, so faith without works._ But the term “without” is hardly strong enough to represent the Greek “apa...
(14-26) FAITH AND WORKS. — We now enter on the most debatable ground of the Epistle; a battle-field strewn with the bones and weapons of countless adversaries. It is an easy thing to shoot “arrows, ev...
CHAPTER 12 FAITH AND WORKS: THREE VIEWS OF THE RELATION, OF THE TEACHING OF ST. JAMES TO THE TEACHING OF ST. PAUL-THE RELATION OF LUTHER TO BOTH. James 2:14 "What doth it profit, my brethren, if a m...
πνεύματος : Spitta's suggested reading, κινήματος, is very ingenious, but quite unnecessary; רוח is often used of “breath,” and the Greek equivalent, πνεῦμα, is also used in the same way in the Septua...
On this section see Introduction IV., § 2. There are a few points worth drawing attention to, in connection with the subject treated of in these verses, before we come to deal with the passage in deta...
DEEDS THE EVIDENCE OF FAITH James 2:14 The Apostle is speaking here of a faith that does not result in a changed life. It is the faith which believes _about_ Jesus Christ, as distinguished from that...
Proceeding, James dealt with the effect of faith on conduct. It makes it impossible to show any respect of persons on the ground of the possession of worldly wealth. To show such respect shows that th...
RAHAB'S EXAMPLE Likewise, Rahab the harlot showed her trust in God by receiving and hiding the spies (Joshua 2:1-24). Despite the fact that she had lived a wicked life, as her name indicates, she and...
(14) For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. (14) The conclusion repeated again: faith does not bring forth fruits and works is not faith, but a dead carcass....
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? (15) If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, (16) And one of you say unt...
REFLECTIONS Oh! for grace, while reading what God the Holy Ghost hath said in this Chapter, in reproving any respect of persons, in his house of prayer; that I may everlastingly keep in view the Lord'...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
_FAITH AND WORKS_ ‘Can faith save him?… Faith without works is dead.’ James 2:14; James 2:26 Salvation through faith is one of the most prominent truths of the Christian religion, and, in spite of...
The apostle now enters on the subject of those who professed to believe that Jesus was Christ the Lord. Before, in Chapter 1, he had spoken of the new nature in connection with God: here the professio...
FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD,.... This simile is made use of to illustrate what the apostle had asserted in James 2:17 that as a body, when the spirit or soul is departed from it, or the...
_Likewise also_, &c. After Abraham, the father of the Jews, the apostle cites Rahab, a woman and a sinner of the Gentiles, to show that in every nation and sex true faith produces works, and is perfec...
There is no contradiction between the meaning of the apostles James and Paul, with regard to justification. The case of Abraham exemplifies the doctrine of both. Paul treats of faith as justifying us...
The example of Abraham and Rahab:...
FAR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD, SO FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD ALSO. In bringing examples from the Old Testament to illustrate his argument, the apostle first refers to an incident in the...
The first 13 verses of this chapter form a second division of the book, dealing with the faith of Christ as being above all personal considerations, perfectly true and impartial. To mix the faith of C...
Explain the example of the body and the spirit. What is the spirit of man? What is the soul of man? What is the difference between spirit and soul? What does Hebrews 4:12 teach about spirit and soul?...
SPIRIT: Or, breath...
"For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead". _ Points To Note:_ 1. Men and women have. dual nature, spirit and body. 2. Here is. good definition concerning...
14-26 Those are wrong who put a mere notional belief of the gospel for the whole of evangelical religion, as many now do. No doubt, true faith alone, whereby men have part in Christ's righteousness,...
THE SPIRIT: this may be understood either, according to the marginal reading, of the breath; and then the sense is, that life and breath being inseparable companions, as the the of breath argues want...
James 2:26 For G1063 as G5618 body G4983 without G5565 spirit G4151 is G2076 (G5748) dead G3498 so...
‘For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.' Then he comes to his final conclusion. Just like the body is dead if it has no spirit (when the spirit has depa...
The Reply Comes, ‘But Surely If We Have Faith That Is Enough. Will We Not Be Seen To Be Righteous Because We Have Faith In Christ? Then Surely It Does Not Really Matter How We Behave Towards Others'....
James 2:14-26. In this passage James continues to enforce practical religion. He tells his readers that faith destitute of works is of no avail to the saving of the soul, and is as useless as a charit...
James 2:26. FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD. The ‘spirit' here may either be the intelligent spirit the soul of man; or the breath of life the living principle; as in the expression, ‘all f...
APART FROM THE SPIRIT (χωρις πνευματος). "Apart from breath" (the breath of life). It is not easy to tell when one is dead, but the absence of a sign of breath on a glass before the mouth and nose...
James 2:26 Justification by Faith. I. Justification by faith is in fact a doctrine belonging of necessity to all true religion, and not to the Christian religion only. Men speak sometimes as if the G...
CONTENTS: The tests of brotherly love and good words. Justification before men by our works. CHARACTERS: Christ, James, Abraham, Isaac, Rahab. CONCLUSION: Those who are possessors of Christ's salvat...
James 2:1. _Have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons._ See James 1:1. The whole of this chapter turns on charity, which is the excellence of pure religio...
SO THEN. _MACKNIGHT_ SAYS: "In no way but by faith accompanied with works can any one be justified." The body without the spirit has no real life or existence. In the same way, faith that does not rea...
JAMES 2:14 Faith without Works Is Dead. James continues the theme that hearing/faith must lead to doing/works. It may seem that James contradicts Paul’s “by grace you have been saved through faith......
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 2:24. BY WORKS.—That is, by the acts which indicate faith to be a reality, and alive. James 2:26. DEAD.—In the sense of being ineffective; mere helpless sentime...
EXPOSITION JAMES 2:1 WARNING AGAINST RESPECT OF PERSONS. JAMES 2:1 The translation is doubtful, two renderings being possible. (1) That of the A.V. and R.
Now my brothers, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons (James 2:1). This is so difficult. It is so easy for us to fall in the trap of respecting pers...
Acts 7:59; Acts 7:60; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 2:22; James 2:14;...
Works [τ ω ν ε ρ γ ω ν]. Note the article : the works belonging or corresponding to faith; its works....
In this verse the apostle sums up the whole matter, by comparing. dead faith to. dead corpse; as that is imperfect, wanting its best and noblest part: so faith without works wants that which dignifies...