Note 8 at 2 Cor. 8:11: Paul is commending them for their desire to give, but he's also stressing that there needs to be actions to accompany that desire. This is the same point that James the apostle made in James 2:14-17, "What doth it profit, my brethren, though 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 in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone."