Parallel Verses
NET Bible
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks 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,
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,
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,
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 someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and eat well," but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 3:11
John answered them, "The person who has two tunics must share with the person who has none, and the person who has food must do likewise."
Job 31:16-21
If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Isaiah 58:7
I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don't turn your back on your own flesh and blood!
Isaiah 58:10
You must actively help the hungry and feed the oppressed. Then your light will dispel the darkness, and your darkness will be transformed into noonday.
Ezekiel 18:7
does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,
Matthew 25:35-40
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
Mark 14:7
For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me!
Acts 9:29
He was speaking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they were trying to kill him.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
James 2:5
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?