...faith is mere profession :— you are believers only in name. For " 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 daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart...

...James introduces his discussion of this subject with these questions: What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith safe him ? In the original it is *) irwJVij ; the faith, which the man declares himself to have; or,...

...lave. 20. Jam. ii. 20. Wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead. 21. Jam. ii. 14. What doth it profit though a man say he hath faith, and hath not works ; 22. Jam. ii. 21. Abraham was justified by works, when he offered Isaac. 23. Jam. ii....

...fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."b He asks, " What doth it profit though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him ?"c He asserts that " faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone ;"dand, as a proof of its inefficacy,...

...commission of adultery and murder. The same eminent minister asks, in the same discourse, " What does it profit, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him ? [Can faith save David in Uriah's bed ? Can it save Solomon worshipping Ashtaroth, perhaps with his...

...labouring to prove, that faith without works is a dead faith, a faith which will not avail to salvation. " What doth it profit though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith — can such a faith — save him?" " If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food,...

...reply to his pretensions is made in the words of Saint James : " What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? can faith save him ?" " Faith, if it hath not works, is dead being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have...

...the reply to his pretensions is made in the words of Saint James: " What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? can faith save him ?" " Faith, if it hath not works, is dead being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have...

...interpretation of all his future arguings, is laid down, ver. 14. ' What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith and have not works, can faith save him ?' Suppose a man, any one of those who are guilty of .the sins charged on them in the foregoing verses,...

...vol. ip 22 E perpetually inculcates the utility of good works. What doth it profit, says St. James, though a man say he hath faith, and have, not works ? Can faith save him ? If faith have not works, it is dead, being alone. By works a man is justified, and not by faith only.*...