If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Greek, 'But if,' etc., taking up the argument against, one who 'said he had faith, yet had not works.'
A brother ... - a fellow-Christian, whom we are specially bound to help, independent of our general obligation to help all fellow-creatures.
Be, х huparchoosin (G5225): denoting a condition in which one is supposed to be: eimi (G1510), simply to be] - 'be found.'