James 5:6 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁶ You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ You have condemned and have murdered the righteous (innocent man), [while] he offers no resistance to you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.

Common English Bible

⁶ You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who doesn’t oppose you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ You led away and killed the Just One, and he did not resist you.

James 5:6 Cross References

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of their rights!

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’

Matthew 27:20

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also;

Acts 22:14

Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear his own voice;

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

Acts 8:32

Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.

Hebrews 10:38

but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court?

James 4:2

You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask.

1 Peter 4:18

And “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinners?”