Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day,
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,
An Understandable Version
If a brother or sister is without [adequate] clothing and needs daily food,
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,
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 [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]? 15 If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day, 16 and one of you should say to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and {eat well}," but does not give them what is necessary for the body, what [is] the benefit?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 3:11
And he answered [and] said to them, "The one who has two tunics must share with the one who does not have [one], and the one who has food must do likewise."
Job 31:16-21
"If I have withheld [the] desire of [the] poor from [them], or I have caused [the] widow's eyes to fail,
Isaiah 58:7
[Is it] not to break your bread for the hungry? You must bring {home} [the] poor, [the] homeless. When you see [the] naked, you must cover him, and you must not hide yourself from your {relatives}.
Isaiah 58:10
if you offer your soul to the hungry, and you satisfy [the] appetite of [the] afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your darkness [will be] like noon.
Ezekiel 18:7
and he oppresses {no one} [and] he returns pledge for his loan {and he commits no robbery} [and] he gives his bread to [the] hungry and he covers a naked person [with] a garment,
Matthew 25:35-40
For I was hungry and you gave me [something] to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me [something] to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me as a guest,
Mark 14:7
For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.
Acts 9:29
And he was speaking and debating with the {Greek-speaking Jews}, but they were trying to do away with him.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by murder with a sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, impoverished, afflicted, mistreated,
James 2:5
Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?