James 2:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

And one of you say vnto them, Depart in peace: warme your selues, and fil your bellies, notwithstading ye giue them not those things which are needefull to the body, what helpeth it?

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  • Matt 25:42-45 : 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me no drinke: 43 I was a stranger, & ye tooke me not in vnto you: I was naked, & ye clothed me not: sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sicke, or in prison, and did not minister vnto thee? 45 Then shall he answere them, and say, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let loue be without dissimulation. Abhorre that which is euill, and cleaue vnto that which is good.
  • 1 John 3:16-18 : 16 Hereby haue we perceiued loue, that he layde downe his life for vs: therefore we ought also to lay downe our liues for the brethren. 17 And whosoeuer hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother haue neede, & shutteth vp his compassion from him, howe dwelleth the loue of God in him? 18 My litle children, let vs not loue in worde, neither in tongue onely, but in deede and in trueth.
  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 This say I not by commaundement, but because of the diligence of others: therefore prooue I the naturalnesse of your loue.
  • Job 22:7-9 : 7 To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie. 8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.
  • Prov 3:27-28 : 27 Withhold not the good from the owners thereof, though there be power in thine hand to doe it. 28 Say not vnto thy neighbour, Go and come againe, and to morow wil I giue thee, if thou now haue it.
  • Matt 14:15-16 : 15 And when euen was come, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desart place, and the time is alreadie past: let the multitude depart, that they may goe into the townes, and bye them vitailes. 16 But Iesus saide to them, They haue no neede to goe away: giue yee them to eate.
  • Matt 15:32 : 32 Then Iesus called his disciples vnto him, and said, I haue compassion on this multitude, because they haue continued with mee already three dayes, & haue nothing to eate: and I wil not let them depart fasting, least they faint in the way.

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  • Jas 2:14-15
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    14What auaileth it, my brethren, though a man saith he hath faith, when he hath no workes? can that faith saue him?

    15For if a brother or a sister bee naked and destitute of daily foode,

  • Jas 2:17-18
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    17Euen so the faith, if it haue no woorkes, is dead in it selfe.

    18But some man might say, Thou hast the faith, and I haue woorkes: shewe me thy faith out of thy woorkes, and I will shewe thee my faith by my woorkes.

  • Isa 58:7
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    7Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poore that wander, vnto thine house? when thou seest the naked, that thou couer him, and hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh?

  • 1 John 3:17
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    17And whosoeuer hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother haue neede, & shutteth vp his compassion from him, howe dwelleth the loue of God in him?

  • 1 Cor 13:3
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    3And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

  • Matt 25:42-45
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    42For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me no drinke:

    43I was a stranger, & ye tooke me not in vnto you: I was naked, & ye clothed me not: sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

    44Then shall they also answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sicke, or in prison, and did not minister vnto thee?

    45Then shall he answere them, and say, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

  • Jas 2:20
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    20But wilt thou vnderstand, O thou vaine man, that the faith which is without workes, is dead?

  • Luke 3:11
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    11And he answered, and said vnto them, He that hath two coates, let him part with him that hath none: and hee that hath meate, let him doe likewise.

  • 2 Thess 3:10
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    10For euen when we were with you, this we warned you of, that if there were any, which would not worke, that he should not eate.

  • Jas 2:26
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    26For as the body without ye spirit is dead, euen so the faith without workes is dead.

  • Matt 25:35-38
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    35For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in vnto you.

    36I was naked, & ye clothed me: I was sicke, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came vnto me.

    37Then shall the righteous answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or a thirst, and gaue thee drinke?

    38And when sawe we thee a stranger, and tooke thee in vnto vs? or naked, & clothed thee?

  • Jas 2:2-3
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    69%

    2For if there come into your copany a man with a golde ring, and in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile raiment,

    3And ye haue a respect to him that weareth the gaie clothing; and say vnto him, Sit thou here in a goodly place, and say vnto the poore, Stand thou there, or sit here vnder my footestoole,

  • Job 22:6-7
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    6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

    7To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

  • Hag 1:6
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    6Ye haue sowen much, and bring in litle: ye eate, but ye haue not ynough: ye drinke, but ye are not filled: ye clothe you, but ye be not warme: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bagge.

  • Matt 25:40
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    40And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethre, ye haue done it to me.

  • Rev 3:17
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    17For thou saiest, I am rich and increased with goods, and haue neede of nothing, and knowest not howe thou art wretched and miserable, and poore, and blinde, and naked.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.

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

  • 3 John 1:5-6
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    5Beloued, thou doest faithfully, whatsoeuer thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers,

    6Which bare witnesse of thy loue before the Churches. Whom if thou bringest on their iourney as it beseemeth according to God, thou shalt doe well,

  • Matt 15:5
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    5But ye say, Whosoeuer shal say to father or mother, By the gift that is offered by me, thou maiest haue profite,

  • 2 Cor 8:14
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    14That also their aboundance may bee for your lacke, that there may be equalitie:

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

  • 1 Tim 6:8
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    8Therefore when wee haue foode and raiment, let vs therewith be content.

  • Rom 14:16
    67%

    16Cause not your commoditie to be euill spoken of.

  • Col 2:23
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    23Which thinges haue in deede a shewe of wisdome, in voluntarie religion and humblenesse of minde, and in not sparing the body, which are thinges of no valewe, sith they perteine to the filling of the flesh.

  • 1 Tim 6:18
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    18That they doe good, and be riche in good woorkes, & readie to distribute, and comunicate,

  • Jas 5:2
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    2Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.

  • Isa 58:10
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    10If thou powre out thy soule to the hungrie, and refresh the troubled soule: then shall thy light spring out in the darkenes, and thy darkenes shalbe as the noone day.

  • Matt 10:9
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    9Possesse not golde, nor siluer, nor money in your girdels,

  • 2 Cor 9:5-6
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    5Wherefore, I thought it necessarie to exhort the brethren to come before vnto you, and to finish your beneuolence appointed afore, that it might be readie, and come as of beneuolence, and not as of niggardlinesse.

    6This yet remember, that he which soweth sparingly, shall reape also sparingly, and hee that soweth liberally, shall reape also liberally.

  • Luke 12:23
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    23The life is more then meate: and the body more then the raiment.

  • Heb 4:2
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    2For vnto vs was the Gospel preached as also vnto them: but the worde that they heard, profited not them, because it was not mixed with faith in those that heard it.

  • 1 Cor 12:15-16
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    15If the foote would say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

    16And if the eare would say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

  • Mark 6:9
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    9But that they should be shod with sandals, & that they should not put on two coates.

  • Jas 1:27
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    27Pure religion & vndefiled before God, euen the Father, is this, to visite the fatherlesse, and widdowes in their aduersitie, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world.

  • Luke 6:29
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    29And vnto him that smiteth thee on ye one cheeke, offer also the other: and him that taketh away thy cloke, forbid not to take thy coate also.

  • Isa 55:2
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    2Wherefore doe ye lay out siluer and not for bread? and your labour without being satisfied? hearken diligently vnto me, and eate that which is good, and let your soule delite in fatnes.