| John Evans - 1825 - 568 pàgines
...represents the absurdity of pretending to sympathy and compassion without this, James ii. 15, 16. " If a brother or sister be naked* and destitute of...which are needful to the body, what doth it profit ?" And St John exhorts us to shew the sincerity of our love by the feeling expressions of it, 1 John... | |
| Francis Close - 1825 - 244 pàgines
...expression he means any true believer in Jesus Christ,) " if a brother or sister," if any fellow Christian " be naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you...which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?" And thus we may ask, if you are offering prayers to God continually to show pity upon the destitute,... | |
| William Paley - 1825 - 490 pàgines
...love to all mankind, goodness of - heart," &c. Hear St. James : " If a brother or sister be na" ked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto...which are needful to the body ; "what doth it profit ?" James, ii. 15, 16. 4. " That giving to the poor is not mentioned in St. Paul's "description of charity,... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1825 - 152 pàgines
...doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith save him ? 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 have not works, is dead, being alone."... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1825 - 150 pàgines
...what doth it profit, my brethren if a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith save him ? 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 have not works, is dead, being alone."... | |
| William Paley - 1825 - 502 pàgines
...goodness of heart," &c. Hear St. James : "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, L2 and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace ; be...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit?" (James, ii. 15, 16.) 4. " That giving to the poor is not mentioned in St. Paul's description of charity,... | |
| Thomas Secker - 1825 - 532 pàgines
...their relief, is just that piece of inconsistence or hypocrisy, which St. James so strongly exposes. If a brother, or sister, be naked, and destitute of...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... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 588 pàgines
...brethren," says the apostle, " 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 daily...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... | |
| Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 498 pàgines
...argument, St. James puts a very obvious case : a case, which, I am afraid, happens almost every day. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of...you say unto them, Depart in peace ! be ye warmed end filled ! notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body : what does... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pàgines
...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...And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye wanned and 611ed ; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body ; what... | |
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