James 2:15

The Passion Translation

For example, if a brother or sister in the faith is poorly clothed and hungry

Cross References

Isaiah 58:10

and if you offer yourselves in compassion for the hungry and relieve those in misery, then your dawning light will rise in the darkness and your gloom will turn into noonday splendor!

Isaiah 58:7

Share your food with the hungry! Provide for the homeless and bring them into your home! Clothe the naked! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!

Ezekiel 18:7

He exploits and defrauds no one. He does not steal but generously feeds the hungry and clothes the needy.

Mark 14:7

You will always have the poor, whom you can help whenever you want, but you will not always have me.

Luke 3:11

John told them, “Give food to the hungry, clothe the poor, and bless the needy.”

Acts 9:29

He openly debated with some of the Jews who had adopted the Greek culture, yet they were secretly plotting to murder him.

Hebrews 11:37

Some of these faith champions were brutally killed by stoning, being sawn in two or slaughtered by the sword. These lived in faith as they went about wearing goatskins and sheepskins for clothing. They lost everything they possessed, they endured great afflictions, and they were cruelly mistreated.

James 2:5

So listen carefully, my dear brothers and sisters, hasn’t God chosen the poor in the world’s eyes to be those who are rich in faith? And won’t they be the heirs of the kingdom-realm he promised to those who love him?

1 John 3:17

If anyone sees a fellow believer in need and has the means to help him, yet shows no pity and closes his heart against him, how is it even possible that God’s love lives in him?