For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
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