James 2:6

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But you've treated the poor shamefully. Isn't it the rich who oppress you and drag you before the courts?

Cross References

Job 20:19

For they have oppressed and abandoned the poor; they have seized houses they did not build.

Psalm 10:10

Their victims are knocked down, laid low. They fall under the strength of the wicked.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see the trouble and grief they cause. Take it into your own hands. The helpless trust in you; you defend the orphans.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked chase down the poor with impunity. May they be trapped by the evil schemes they themselves invented.

Psalm 10:8

They hide out in ambush in the villages, ready to kill innocent passers-by. They are always on the lookout for their next victim.

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the violence the helpless have suffered, and because of the groans of the poor, I will rise up to defend them,” says the Lord. “I will give them the protection they have been longing for.”

Psalm 14:6

The wicked dismiss the plans of the poor people, but the Lord looks after them.

Proverbs 14:31

Anyone who oppresses the poor insults their Maker, but anyone who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 17:5

Anyone who oppresses the poor insults their Maker, and anyone who enjoys the suffering of others will be punished.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor beg for mercy, but the rich reply harshly.

Proverbs 22:16

If you oppress the poor to make yourself rich, or if you're generous to the rich, you'll end up poor yourself.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule the poor, and borrowers are slaves to their lenders.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see poor people somewhere being oppressed, or truth and justice violated, don't be shocked at it, for every official is responsible to others higher up, and there are officials over them as well.

Isaiah 53:3

People despised him and rejected him. He was a man who really suffered and who experienced the deepest pain. We treated him like someone you turn away from in disgust—we despised him and had no respect for him.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you well-fed cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who order your husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Amos 5:11

Because you trample down the poor and impose a tax on their grain, building for yourselves impressive houses, you will not live in them, and you will not drink wine from the fine vineyards you have planted.

Habakkuk 3:14

With his own arrows you pierced the heads of his warriors, those who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating like those who secretly abuse the poor.

Zechariah 7:10

Don't exploit those who are widowed or fatherless, foreigners or the poor. Don't think up ways of mistreating one other.

John 8:49

“No, I don't have a demon,” Jesus replied. “I honor my Father, but you dishonor me.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the prominent religious women and leaders of the city to persecute Paul and Barnabas, and had them expelled from their territory.

Acts 17:6

When they couldn't find them they dragged Jason and some of the other believers before the town leaders, shouting, “These people are famous for causing trouble, turning the world upside down. Now they've come here,

Acts 18:12

However, during the time when Gallio was the governor of Achaia, the Jews united in an attack against Paul and brought him before the court.

Acts 8:3

But Saul set about destroying the church, going from house to house, dragging both men and women off to prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

Don't you have your own houses to eat and drink in? Do you look down on God's church, and humiliate those who are poor? What should I tell you? That you're doing really well? I have nothing good to say about you for doing this!

James 2:3

If you pay special attention to the well-dressed man, and say, “Please sit here in a seat of honor,” while you say to the poor man, “Stand over there, or sit on the floor by my feet,”

James 5:4

Look, the wages of your farm workers that you cheated are crying out against you—the cries of the farm workers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

James 5:6

You have condemned and killed the innocent who didn't even resist you.