James 2:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁶ Yet you have dishonoured the poor.  Don’t the rich oppress you and drag  you into court?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But you [in contrast] have insulted (humiliated, dishonored, and shown your contempt for) the poor. Is it not the rich who domineer over you? Is it not they who drag you into the law courts?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

Common English Bible

⁶ But you have dishonored the poor. Don’t the wealthy make life difficult for you? Aren’t they the ones who drag you into court?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you through power? And are not they the ones who drag you to judgment?

James 2:6 Cross References

Job 20:19

For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.

Proverbs 14:31

The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker, but one who is kind to the needy honours him.

Proverbs 17:5

The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker, and one who rejoices over calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor person pleads, but the rich one answers roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich #– #both lead only to poverty.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see oppression of the poor  and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation,  because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; he was despised, and we didn’t value him.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierce his head with his own spears; his warriors storm out to scatter us, gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident 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 answered. ‘On the contrary, I honour my Father and you dishonour me.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the prominent God-fearing women and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

Acts 17:6

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, ‘These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

Acts 18:12

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the tribunal.

Acts 8:3

Saul,  however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

Don’t you have homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you in this matter!

James 2:3

if you look with favour on the one wearing the fine clothes and say, ‘Sit here in a good place,’ and yet you say to the poor person, ‘Stand over there,’ or ‘Sit here on the floor by my footstool,’

James 5:4

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers  who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you.