“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?”
If one of you says to them, 'Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? — the hollow piety of good wishes (eirēnē, go in peace) without corresponding action is indicted as worthless. The rhetorical question 'what good is it?' (ti to ophelos) directly parallels 2:14, establishing that such verbal spirituality accomplishes nothing. The gap between spoken compassion and material help exposes the bankruptcy of faith divorced from action.
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