Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
If a brother or sister is without [adequate] clothing and needs daily food,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Holman Bible
If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food
International Standard Version
Suppose a brother or sister does not have any clothes or daily food
A Conservative Version
And if a brother or sister may be unclothed, and may be destitute of daily food,
American Standard Version
If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,
Amplified
If a brother or sister is without [adequate] clothing and lacks [enough] food for each day,
Anderson New Testament
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Bible in Basic English
If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,
Common New Testament
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,
Daniel Mace New Testament
suppose one of your brethren should be destitute of cloths, and of his daily nourishment,
Darby Translation
Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
Godbey New Testament
If a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of daily food,
Goodspeed New Testament
If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day,
John Wesley New Testament
Can that faith save him? If a brother or a sister be naked,
Julia Smith Translation
And if a brother or sister be naked, and be failing of daily food,
King James 2000
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Lexham Expanded Bible
If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day,
Modern King James verseion
If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of daily food,
Moffatt New Testament
Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food;
Montgomery New Testament
If a brother or sister be naked and in need of daily food,
NET Bible
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,
New Heart English Bible
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
Noyes New Testament
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Sawyer New Testament
And if a brother or sister is naked, or destitute of daily food,
The Emphasized Bible
If, a brother or sister, should be naked, and coming short of the daily food,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Now if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Twentieth Century New Testament
Suppose some Brother or Sister should be in want of clothes and of daily bread,
Webster
If a brother or sister is naked, and destitute of daily food,
Weymouth New Testament
Suppose a Christian brother or sister is poorly clad or lacks daily food,
Williams New Testament
If some brother or sister is thinly clad and has no food for the day,
World English Bible
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
Worrell New Testament
If a brother or a sister be naked, and in want of daily food,
Worsley New Testament
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food;
Youngs Literal Translation
and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,
Themes
Inconsistency » General marks of » Selfishness
Liberality » Want of » A proof of not having faith
The poor » Neglect towards, is » A proof of unbelief
Religion » Inconsistency in religious life general marks of » Selfishness
Works » Good » In the judgment, will be an evidence of faith
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Morish
Smith
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Faith And Works
14 What good is it, my brothers [and sisters], if a person says he has faith but does not have [good] deeds? Can such faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without [adequate] clothing and needs daily food, 16 and one of you says to him, "Go [and be] at peace; keep warm and eat well," and yet you do not give him anything for his physical needs, what good is that?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
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."
Matthew 25:35-40
for [when] I was hungry, you fed me; [when] I was thirsty, you gave me [something] to drink; [when] I came [to you as] a stranger, you gave me a place to stay;
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.
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?