Other translations
New Catholic Bible
The bread of charity is life itself to the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a murderer.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a murderer.
Good News Translation®
If you touch a dead body and then purify yourself by washing, but then go and touch it again, what good did the washing do?
Wycliffe Bible
What profiteth the washing of him, that is washed for a dead body, and toucheth again a dead body? [That (or Who) is baptised from the dead, and again toucheth the dead, what profiteth his washing?]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
If a man washes after touching a dead body, and touches it again, what has he gained by his washing?
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a murderer.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a murderer.
Common English Bible © 2011
The needy person’s bread means life for that poor person; whoever withholds it is a murderer.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The bread of charity is life itself for the needy; whoever withholds it is a murderer.
Revised Standard Version
If a man washes after touching a dead body, and touches it again, what has he gained by his washing?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a murderer.