 | 1920 - 594 pages
...Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come." — Heb. 11:20. The Faith That Failed. "What doth It profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?" — Jas. 2:14. The Trial of Faith. "That the proof of your... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Bible - 1920 - 482 pages
...that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement. Faith and Works. — An Essay What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food,... | |
 | Du Bois Henry Loux - Democracy - 1920 - 104 pages
...warn early Christianity that faith without this distinct community-life is dead, thus : "What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not (community) works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of... | |
 | Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church - Church music - 1925 - 976 pages
...judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment. What doth it profit, my brethren, If a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - Catholics - 1927 - 430 pages
...resist ye, strong in faith. But let it be that faith which worketh by Charity. What shall it profit, Brethren, if a Man say he hath faith, but hath not works ? Shall faith be able to save him. Thou believest that there is one God. Thou doest well : the devils also believe, and tremble. But as... | |
 | Charles M. Sheldon - Bible - 1924 - 664 pages
...judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment. What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,... | |
 | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) - Biography & Autobiography - 1947 - 172 pages
...good, then without doubt, as the Aposde James says, it is dead in itself.221 And elsewhere he says: If a man say he hath faith, but hath not works, shall faith be able to save him? 2M And further, if a wicked man were to be saved by fire because of his faith alone, and if the words... | |
 | Hugh Joseph Nolan - 1948 - 536 pages
...resist ye, strong in faith. But let it be that faith which worketh by Charity. What shall it profit, Brethren, if a Man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? Thou believest that there is one God. Thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But as... | |
 | Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer - Religion - 1954 - 212 pages
...connection between faith and works. He preaches this connection anew, as appears from his words: "What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? Can that faith save him?" (James 2:14). This questioning of the worth and the power... | |
 | Jean Calvin, John Calvin - Religion - 1995 - 356 pages
...as it were, to His mercy, and that the latter has raised the siege brought by the former. What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food,... | |
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If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead... 
