James 2:15
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
KJV
ἐὰν ἀδελφὸς ἢ ἀδελφὴ γυμνοὶ ὑπάρχωσιν καὶ λειπόμενοι τῆς ἐφημέρου τροφῆς,
Greek NT
Si autem frater et soror nudi sint, et indigeant victu quotidiano,
Vulgate
If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,
ASV
And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food:
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γυμνός
gumnos
adjective · 15×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λείπω
leipo
verb · 6×
τροφή
trophe
noun · 16×
ἀδελφή
adelphe
noun · 26×
ἀδελφός
adelphos
noun · 343×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἐφήμερος
ephemeros
adjective · 1×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑπάρχω
uparcho
verb · 60×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ἐὰν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐὰν | RP: + δὲ
- ἐὰν — SBLGNT
- ἐὰν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + δὲ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: λειπόμενοι | WH/Treg/NIV: λειπόμενοι | RP: + ὦσιν
- λειπόμενοι — SBLGNT
- λειπόμενοι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ὦσιν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§162Faith is an entirely free gift that God makes to man. We can lose this priceless gift, as St. Paul indicated to St. Timothy: "Wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith."44 To live, grow and persevere in the faith until the end we must nourish it with the word of God; we must beg the Lo…
§2447The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities.241 Instructing, advising, consoling, comforting are spiritual works of mercy, as are forgiving and bearing wrongs patiently. the corporal works of mercy consist especially in feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the …
36. Any truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without indulgence letters. 37. Any true Christian, whether living or dead, participates in all the blessings of Christ and the church; and this is granted him by God, even without indulgence letters. 43. Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy does…
Cross-references
- 1John 3:17 — But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
- 1John 3:18 — My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
- 1Pet 1:22 — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
- 2Chr 28:15 — And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink,
- 2Cor 8:10 — And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
- 2Cor 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
- Deut 10:19 — Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Deut 15:7 — If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor bro
- Eph 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
- Gal 2:10 — Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
- Gal 5:13 — For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
- Heb 6:10 — For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
- Isa 58:7 — Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own fl
- Isa 58:7 — Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own fl
- Isa 58:10 — And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
- Jas 2:24 — Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
- Job 31:16 — If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
- Luke 3:11 — He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
- Luke 3:11 — He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
- Matt 5:42 — Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
- Matt 6:2 — Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have t
- Matt 25:35 — For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
- Matt 25:35 — For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
- Matt 25:42 — For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
- Prov 3:27 — Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
- Prov 19:7 — All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
- Prov 25:20 — As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
- Ps 112:9 — He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
- Rom 12:9 — Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
- Rom 16:1 — I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: