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and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn`t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
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Faith Without Action is Empty
Commentators explain that James uses a powerful, almost absurd, analogy. Just as wishing a cold and hungry person well without providing food or clothing is a hollow, useless gesture, so is a faith that produces no good works. Such faith is described as 'dead' and 'unprofitable' because genuine belief always leads to corresponding action.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If a brother or sister be naked, etc. The comparison in these verses is very obvious and striking. The sense is, that faith in itself, wit…
And one of you say unto them (ειπη δε τις αυτοις εξ υμων). Third-class condition again continued from verse 15 with second aorist …
19th Century
Anglican
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled.—Knowing the style of the rugged Apostle as we do,…
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The proposition is now illustrated by a supposition bordering on the ludicrous. It is the case of a fellow-believer who is in dire need of clothes …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And one of you say unto them That is, one of the same faith, and in the same communion and church fellowship.
Those who substitute a mere intellectual belief in the gospel for the entirety of evangelical religion, as many do today, are mistaken. Undoubtedly…
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