Let the one who has ears to hear, hear; and the one who has the power to act, act.
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say ‘thoughts and prayers’ but do not have works? Can ‘thoughts and prayers’ save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So ‘thoughts and prayers’ by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have ‘thoughts and prayers’ and I have works.” Show me your ‘thoughts and prayers’ apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my ‘thoughts and prayers.’
Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that ‘thoughts and prayers’ apart from works is barren?
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so ‘thoughts and prayers’ without works is also dead.
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