James 2:15
If an Ach b'Moshiach or an Achot b'Moshiach is dressed in shmattes (tatters) and lacking “lechem chukeinu” + 2:15 Mt 6:11 (our daily bread),
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
In Context
Cross References
Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their chefetz (desire), 1 or have caused the eyes of the almanah to grow weary, 1
Isaiah 58:10And if thou draw out thy nefesh to the hungry, 1 and satisfy the nefesh of the afflicted, 1 then shall thy ohr rise in choshech, 1 and thy darkness shall be as the noon; 1
Matthew 25:35For I hungered and you gave me something to eat. I thirsted and you gave drink to me. I was a sojourner, and you extended hachnosas orchim (hospitality) to me.
Luke 3:11And in reply, Yochanan was saying to them, Let the one having two kaftans share with the one having none, and let the one having okhel (food) do likewise.
Hebrews 11:37They were killed by seqilah (stoning), they were sawn in two, they were murdered by the cherev, they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being nitzrach (needy) and destitute, oppressed, under redifot (persecutions),
Matthew Henry on James 2:15-26
Faith and Works. ( a. d. 61.) 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith… Read the whole commentary →