James 2:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

You mistreat the poor. But isn't it the rich who boss you around and drag you off to court?

Cross References

Proverbs 17:5

By insulting the poor, you insult your Creator. You will be punished if you make fun of someone in trouble.

1 Corinthians 11:22

Don't you have homes where you can eat and drink? Do you hate God's church? Do you want to embarrass people who don't have anything? What can I say to you? I certainly cannot praise you.

Proverbs 14:31

If you mistreat the poor, you insult your Creator; if you are kind to them, you show him respect.

Psalm 14:6

You may spoil the plans of the poor, but the Lord protects them.

James 5:4

You refused to pay the people who worked in your fields, and now their unpaid wages are shouting out against you. The Lord All-Powerful has surely heard the cries of the workers who harvested your crops.

James 2:3

You must not give the best seat to the one in fancy clothes and tell the one who is poor to stand at the side or sit on the floor.

Acts 17:6

But when they did not find them there, they dragged out Jason and some of the Lord's followers. They took them to the city authorities and shouted, “Paul and Silas have been upsetting things everywhere. Now they have come here,

Acts 13:50

But the Jewish leaders went to some of the important men in the town and to some respected women who were religious. They turned them against Paul and Barnabas and started making trouble for them. They even chased them out of this part of the country.

Acts 8:3

Saul started making a lot of trouble for the church. He went from house to house, arresting men and women and putting them in jail.

Zechariah 7:10

Don't mistreat widows or orphans or foreigners or anyone who is poor, and stop making plans to hurt each other.”

Amos 5:11

you abuse the poor and demand heavy taxes from them. You have built expensive homes, but you won't enjoy them; you have planted vineyards, but you will get no wine.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Don't be surprised if the poor of your country are abused, and injustice takes the place of justice. After all, the lower officials must do what the higher ones order them to do.

Proverbs 22:16

Cheat the poor to make profit or give gifts to the rich— either way you lose.

Psalm 12:5

But you, Lord, tell them, “I will do something! The poor are mistreated and helpless people moan. I'll rescue all who suffer.”

Psalm 10:14

But you see the trouble and the distress, and you will do something. The poor can count on you, and so can orphans.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered innocent people, who couldn't even fight back.

Acts 18:12

While Gallio was governor of Achaia, some of the Jewish leaders got together and grabbed Paul. They brought him into court

Habakkuk 3:14

His troops had come like a storm, hoping to scatter us and glad to gobble us up. To them we were refugees in hiding— but you smashed their heads with their own weapons.

Amos 4:1

You women of Samaria are fat cows! You mistreat and abuse the poor and needy, then you say to your husbands, “Bring us more drinks!”

Isaiah 53:3

He was hated and rejected; his life was filled with sorrow and terrible suffering. No one wanted to look at him. We despised him and said, “He is a nobody!”

Psalm 10:10

They crouch down and wait to grab a victim.

Psalm 10:8

They hide outside villages, waiting to strike and murder some innocent victim.

Psalm 10:2

Proud and brutal people hunt down the poor. But let them get caught by their own evil plans!

Job 20:19

because they cheated the poor and took their homes.

John 8:49

Jesus answered, “I don't have a demon in me. I honor my Father, and you refuse to honor me.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor must beg for help, but the rich can give a harsh reply.

Proverbs 22:7

The poor are ruled by the rich, and those who borrow are slaves of moneylenders.