James 2:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?”
Read James 2:6 in the flow of James2 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open James2 to see the surrounding context.
“But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?”
King James Version · Public Domain“But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo James 2:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 21:11So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
- Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
- Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
- Psalms 10:10They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.
- Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
- Psalms 14:6You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.
- Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
- Proverbs 17:5He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
- Proverbs 22:16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
- Ecclesiastes 9:15Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
- Isaiah 3:14The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
- Amos 2:6This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
- Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
- Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Micah 6:11Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
- Habakkuk 3:14With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
- Zechariah 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
- John 8:49“I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
- Acts 4:1While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
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