James 2:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food

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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

Isaiah 58:10

if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

Ezekiel 18:7

does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Mark 14:7

For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish, but you will not always have me.

Luke 3:11

In reply he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.”

Acts 9:29

He spoke and argued with the Hellenists, but they were attempting to kill him.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned to death; they were sawn in two; they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented—

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

1 John 3:17

How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?