James 2:15 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁵ If a brother or sister is without [adequate] clothing and needs daily food,

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ If a brother or sister is poorly clad and lacks food for each day,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Imagine a brother or sister who is naked and never has enough food to eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ So if a brother or sister is naked and daily in need of food,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food:

James 2:15 Cross References

Mark 14:7

You will always have poor people with you, and you can do something good for them whenever you want to, but you will not always have me with you.

Luke 3:11

And he answered them, “The person who has two coats should give [one of them] to the person who does not have any; and the person who has food should do the same thing.”

Acts 9:29

preaching boldly in the name of the Lord [and] speaking and arguing with the Greek-[speaking] Jews, but they were out to kill him.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were executed by the sword. They traveled around in sheepskin and goatskin clothing; they were destitute, afflicted and mistreated.

James 2:5

Listen, my dearly loved brothers; did not God choose those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be wealthy in faith and to inherit the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

1 John 3:17

Now whoever has [a sufficient amount of] life’s possessions and [then] observes one of his [Christian] brothers who does not have enough to get by on, but does not feel sorry for him [i.e., enough to help him out], surely a love for God does not continue to live in that person’s heart.