James 2:6

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Job 20:19

Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;

Psalm 10:10

He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 10:8

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, said the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs at him.

Psalm 14:6

You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.

Proverbs 17:5

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor uses entreaties; but the rich answers roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regards; and there be higher than they.

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 5:11

For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

Habakkuk 3:14

You did strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

Zechariah 7:10

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

John 8:49

Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honor my Father, and you do dishonor me.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.

Acts 17:6

And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come here also;

Acts 18:12

And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,

Acts 8:3

As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

James 2:3

And you have respect to him that wears the gay clothing, and say to him, Sit you here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand you there, or sit here under my footstool:

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

James 5:6

You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.