James 2:6

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Cross References

Job 20:19

For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.

Psalm 10:10

So he is oppressed and beaten down; the helpless fall because of his strength.

Psalm 10:14

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief, observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands. The helpless entrusts himself to You; You are a helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

Psalm 10:8

He waits in ambush near the villages; he kills the innocent in secret places. His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the oppression of the afflicted and the groaning of the poor, I will now rise up,” says the Lord. “I will put the one who longs for it in a safe place.”

Psalm 14:6

You sinners frustrate the plans of the afflicted, but the Lord is his refuge.

Proverbs 14:31

The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker, but one who is kind to the needy honors Him.

Proverbs 17:5

The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker, and one who rejoices over calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor man pleads, but the rich one answers roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich — both lead only to poverty.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring us something to drink.”

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierce his head with his own spears; his warriors storm out to scatter us, gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.

John 8:49

“I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered. “On the contrary, I honor My Father and you dishonor Me.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the prominent women, who worshiped God, and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

Acts 17:6

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

Acts 18:12

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the judge’s bench.

Acts 8:3

Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!

James 2:3

If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”

James 5:4

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

James 5:6

You have condemned — you have murdered — the righteous man; he does not resist you.