 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1814 - 632 pages
...have not works ? can faith save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? even «o faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, thou hast faith,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...If," as the Apostle James truly observes, " a brother or sister be naked, or destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body, what doth it profit?" (chap. ii. 15, 16.) It is as profitless to him who contents himself with the sentiment as to the object... | |
 | William Butcher (rector of Ropsley.) - 1816 - 272 pages
...unprolific faith, he means) save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food; and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone: yea, a man may say, Thou bast faith, and... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...sincere when we come before the Lord: for, If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace : be...which are needful to the body : what doth it profit? Our actions must satisfy our own consciences. Hear what the prophet Isaiah says, even of a Day of Humiliation... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 554 pages
...have not works ? Can faith save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food ; and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body , what doth it profit ?" 2. This very thing is often mentioned in scripture, as an essential part of the character of a godly... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology, Doctrinal - 1818 - 578 pages
...uttering good wishes over their distresses. If a brother or sister be naked, or destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Nothing is more absurd, nothing is more contemptible, than the charity which evaporates in words... | |
 | Whole duty - 1821 - 566 pages
...: for as St. James likewise observes, If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body; what doth it profit either the afflicted or your own soul? for let that man, whose chanty only shows itself in his lips,... | |
 | Thomas Young - Bible - 1822 - 348 pages
...have not works ? Can faith save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." (n. 14. 17.) THUS then we have sufficiently... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...have not works! Can faith save him 1 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, it dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and... | |
 | W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 pages
...conduct as well as in the profession ? If a brother or sister he naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body, what doth it profit? (.« Jas. 15, 16.) 14. Does true friendship continue in adversity? A friend loveth at all times, and... | |
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If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 
