James 2:14 poses the question that 2:26 answers — faith without works is dead. It frames the entire argument.

James 2:17 states the same principle — faith without works is dead — directly reinforcing the analogy in 2:26.

James 2:20 repeats the claim that faith without works is dead, echoed in 2:26's analogy of body without spirit.

Psalm 104:29 states that when God takes away their breath, they die and return to dust — the very mechanism James uses for his analogy.

Revelation 3:1 shows a church reputed alive but dead — a corporate parallel to James's individual dead faith without works.

Job 34:14 describes God gathering back spirit and breath, causing death — the same cause-of-death principle James uses to illustrate faith without works.

Job 34:15 continues the thought: without spirit, all flesh perishes and returns to dust — directly parallel to James’s body/spirit analogy.