James 5:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

James 5:6 Cross References

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not 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 have his inheritance.’

Matthew 27:20

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the people to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also;

Acts 22:14

And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One and to hear a voice from his mouth;

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

Acts 8:32

Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: “As a sheep led to the slaughter or a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

Hebrews 10:38

but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

James 2:6

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

James 4:2

You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

1 Peter 4:18

And “If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where will the impious and sinner appear?”