James 2:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

If a brother or a sister be naked, and destitute of dayly foode,

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  • Luke 3:11 : 11 He aunswereth, and sayth vnto them: He that hath two coates, let him part with hym that hath none: and he that hath meate, let hym do lykewyse.
  • Matt 25:35-40 : 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me drynke: I was harbourlesse, and ye toke me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: Sicke, and ye visited me: I was in pryson, and ye came vnto me. 37 Then shall the ryghteous aunswere hym, saying: Lorde, when sawe we thee an hungred, & fedde thee? or thirstie and gaue thee drynke? 38 When sawe we thee harbourlesse, and toke thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when sawe we thee sicke, or in prison, and came vnto thee? 40 And the kyng shall aunswere, and say vnto them: Ueryly I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethren, ye haue done it vnto me.
  • Mark 14:7 : 7 For ye haue poore with you alwayes, and whensoeuer ye wyll, ye may do the good: but me haue ye not alwayes.
  • Job 31:16-21 : 16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne: 17 If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof: 18 (For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe) 19 If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment: 20 If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe: 21 If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate:
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe?
  • Isa 58:10 : 10 If thou hast compassion vpon the hungrie, and refreshest the troubled soule: then shall thy light spring out in the darknesse, and thy darknesse shalbe as the noone day.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken my deare beloued brethren. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, such as are riche in fayth, and heyres of the kyngdome, which he promised to them that loue hym?
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 Neither hath oppressed any man, but hath restored to the detter his pledge: he that hath not spoyled any by violence, hath geuen his bread to the hungry, and hath clothed the naked:
  • Heb 11:37 : 37 They were stoned, were hewen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with sword, wandred about in sheepskinnes, and goates skinnes, beyng destitute, afflicted and tormented:

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  • Jas 2:16-17
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    16And one of you say vnto them, depart in peace, be you warmed and fylled: notwithstandyng, ye geue them not those thinges which are nedefull to, the body, what shall it profite?

    17Euen so, fayth, yf it haue not deedes, is dead in it selfe:

  • Jas 2:14
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    14What profiteth it my brethren, though a man say he hath fayth, and hath not deedes? Can fayth saue hym?

  • Isa 58:7
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    7To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe?

  • 1 John 3:17
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    17But who so hath this worldes good, and seeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compassion from hym: howe dwelleth the loue of God in hym?

  • Job 31:19
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    19If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment:

  • Jas 2:1-3
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    1My brethren, haue not the fayth of our Lorde Iesus Christe, the Lord of glorie, with respect of persons.

    2For yf there come into your companie a man wearing a golde ryng, clothed in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile rayment:

    3And ye haue a respect to hym that weareth the gay clothyng, and say vnto hym, sitte thou here in a good place: & say vnto the poore, stande thou there, or sitte here vnder my footestoole:

  • Job 22:6-7
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    6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.

    7To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

  • Job 24:10
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    10They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie.

  • Ezek 18:16
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    16Neither hath oppressed any, nor hath withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence: but hath geuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment:

  • Matt 25:35-38
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    35For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me drynke: I was harbourlesse, and ye toke me in:

    36Naked, and ye clothed me: Sicke, and ye visited me: I was in pryson, and ye came vnto me.

    37Then shall the ryghteous aunswere hym, saying: Lorde, when sawe we thee an hungred, & fedde thee? or thirstie and gaue thee drynke?

    38When sawe we thee harbourlesse, and toke thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

  • Job 24:7
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    7They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

  • 1 Cor 4:11
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    11Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place.

  • 1 Cor 13:3
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    3And though I bestowe all my goodes to feede the poore, and though I geue my body that I burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothyng.

  • Matt 25:42-44
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    42For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me no drynke.

    43I was harbourlesse, and ye toke me not in: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: I was sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

    44Then shall they also aunswere hym, saying: Lorde, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirste, or harbourlesse, or naked, or sicke, or in pryson, and did not minister vnto thee?

  • 2 Cor 5:3
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    3So yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked.

  • Ezek 18:7
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    7Neither hath oppressed any man, but hath restored to the detter his pledge: he that hath not spoyled any by violence, hath geuen his bread to the hungry, and hath clothed the naked:

  • Lev 25:35
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    35If thy brother be waxen poore and fallen in decay with thee, thou shalt relieue hym as a straunger or soiourner, that he may lyue with thee.

  • 1 Tim 6:8
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    8But hauyng foode and rayment, we must therwith be content.

  • 2 Cor 11:27
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    27In labour & trauayle, in watchinges often, in hunger and thirst, in fastinges often, in colde and nakednesse,

  • Luke 3:11
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    11He aunswereth, and sayth vnto them: He that hath two coates, let him part with hym that hath none: and he that hath meate, let hym do lykewyse.

  • Deut 15:7
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    7If one of thy brethren among you be poore within any of thy gates in thy lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee: thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut to thine hande from thy poore brother:

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    16Yf any man or woman that beleueth haue wydowes, let them susteine them, & let not the Churches be charged, that there maye be sufficient for them that are wydowes in deede.

  • 2 Thess 3:10
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    10For when we were with you, this we warned you of: that yf any woulde not worke, the same shoulde not eate.

  • Acts 2:45
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    45And solde their possessions & goodes, and parted them to all men, as euery man had neede.

  • 2 Cor 8:14-15
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    14But that there be equalnesse nowe at this tyme, and that your aboundaunce may succour their lacke, and that their aboundaunce maye supplie your lacke, that there may be equalitie.

    15As it written: He that had much, had not the more aboundaunce, and he that had litle, had not the lesse.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12That ye may walke honestly toward them that are without, & that nothyng be lackyng in you.

  • Jas 1:27
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    27Pure deuotion and vndefyled before God and the father, is this: To visite the fatherlesse and widdowes in their aduersitie, and to kepe hymselfe vnspotted of the worlde.

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    8But if any prouide not for his owne, and specially for them of his housholde, he hath denyed the fayth, and is worse then an infidell.

  • Matt 6:31
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    31Therefore take no thought, saying: What shall we eate? or, what shall we drynke? or, wherewith shall we be clothed?

  • Isa 58:10
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    10If thou hast compassion vpon the hungrie, and refreshest the troubled soule: then shall thy light spring out in the darknesse, and thy darknesse shalbe as the noone day.

  • Acts 4:35
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    35And layed it downe at the Apostles feete: And distribution was made vnto euery man, accordyng as he had neede.

  • Jas 2:20
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    20But wylt thou knowe, O thou vayne man, that that fayth which is without workes, is dead?

  • Rom 14:15
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    15But yf thy brother be greeued with thy meat, nowe walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not hym with thy meat, for whom Christe dyed.

  • Jas 5:2
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    2Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten:

  • Luke 12:23
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    23The lyfe is more then meate, and the body is more then rayment.

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5Beloued, thou doest faythfully whatsoeuer thou doest to the brethren, and to straungers,

  • 2 Cor 9:5
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    5Therfore, I thought it necessarie to exhort the brethren, to come beforehand vnto you, and to prepare your good blessyng promised afore, that it myght be redy, so that it be as a blessyng, and not a defraudyng.

  • Job 31:16
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    16If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne:

  • Mark 6:9
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    9But shoulde be shoed with sandales: And that they shoulde not put on two coates.

  • Gal 5:15
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    15Yf ye byte and deuoure one another, take heede lest ye be consumed one of another.