| William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812 - 284 pages
...not love in word -, neither in tongue ; " but in deed and in truth. If a brother or sister be " na&ed and destitute of daily food, and one of you say "...and filled ; "notwithstanding ye give them not those thing which " are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? even " so, faith if it hath not works... | |
| Abraham Booth - Theology - 1813 - 452 pages
...doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit — Whoso hath this world's goods, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion... | |
| Robert Stevens - 1813 - 668 pages
...assent to truth, unaccompanied by practical Christianity, convey to him the benefits of redemption ? " If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of...notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful for the body, what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. * James,... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...visited me not. James ii. 15. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, Ver 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which, are needful to the body, what doth it profit ! Eccl vi. 1. There is an evil which I have seen tinder the sun, and it is common among men : Ver.... | |
| Missions - 1839 - 702 pages
...pretenders to religion, that ye boast of your faith and knowledge ; will this profession save you? "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of...you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and rilled ; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which arc needful to the body, what doth it... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1814 - 632 pages
...it profit, my brethren, though a man say he. hath faith, and have not works ? can faith save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of...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, and, I... | |
| 1846 - 810 pages
...dear reader ? Why, don't you remember the fifteenth verse of the second chapterofthe Epistle of James: "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of...which are needful to the body, what doth it profit ?" And the seventeenth verse of the third chapter of St. John's Epistle : " Whoso hath this world's... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...mere sentimentality. " 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,...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... | |
| Samuel Whitman - Atonement - 1814 - 390 pages
...doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of...you say unto them. Depart in peace, be ye warmed and be ye filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...the necessity of proving even to ourselves, that we are sincere when we come before the Lord: for, If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of...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... | |
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