If you give yourself to the hungry, and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness, and your gloom will be like midday.
James 2:15 - Tree of Life Version If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If a brother or sister is poorly clad and lacks food for each day, American Standard Version (1901) If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, Common English Bible Imagine a brother or sister who is naked and never has enough food to eat. Catholic Public Domain Version So if a brother or sister is naked and daily in need of food, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food: |
If you give yourself to the hungry, and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness, and your gloom will be like midday.
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the homeless poor into your house? When you see the naked, to cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh and blood?
He does not wrong anyone, returns his pledge for a debt, does not commit robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment.
For you always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want; but you won’t always have Me.
He answered them, saying, “Whoever has two coats, let him give to the one who has none; and whoever has food, let him do the same.”
He was speaking and arguing with the Hellenists, but they were trying to kill him.
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were murdered with the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, mistreated.
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters. Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom that He promised to those who love Him?
But if someone has material possessions and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?