 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 436 pages
...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 daily food, and...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... | |
 | Francis Close - 1825 - 244 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 150 pages
...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 daily food, and...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 - 152 pages
...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 daily food, and...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 pages
...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 - 394 pages
...their relief, is just that piece of inconsistence or hypocrisy, which St. James so strongly exposes. " If a brother, or a sister, be " naked, and destitute...say unto them, depart in peace, be ye " warmed, and be ye filled ; notwithstanding ye " give them not these things which are needful to " the body, what... | |
 | William BISHOP (Rector of Ufton Nervet.) - 1825 - 364 pages
...save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto him, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being aloned." Now if such must be the conduct of a... | |
 | John Scott - 1826 - 650 pages
...is to be performed with an open and a liberal hand, the same apostle informs us, James ii. 15, 16. If a brother or a sister be naked, and destitute of...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? That is, if} instead of food and raiment, you only give him fair words and good wishes, what doth... | |
 | Charles Walker - 1826 - 44 pages
...must do something, or cease to pray for this object. He feels the force of the sacred declaration — "If a brother or a sister be naked and destitute of...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ?" The existence of an Education Society, relieves him from the dilemma. Into the treasury of that... | |
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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? 
