James 2:6

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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 a house which he did not build;

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 repay 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 persecutes the poor: let them be taken in the plans that they have imagined.

Psalm 10:8

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the hidden places he murders the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says 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 who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he who honors him has mercy on the poor.

Proverbs 17:5

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

Proverbs 18:23

The poor uses appeals; 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, do not marvel at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regards it; and there is one higher than they.

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected by 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, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 5:11

Seeing therefore that your trampling is upon the poor, and you take from him loads of wheat: you have built houses of cut stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

Habakkuk 3:14

You struck through with his rods the chief 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 do not oppress 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 do not have a devil; but I honor my Father, and you 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 territory.

Acts 17:6

And when they did not find them, they took Jason and certain believers to the rulers of the city, crying out, These who have turned the world upside down have come here also;

Acts 18:12

And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made an 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 dragging away men and women committed them to prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

What? Do you not have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

James 2:3

And you have respect for him who wears the beautiful clothing, and say to him, Sit here in a good place; and say to the poor man, Stand there, or sit here under my footrest:

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which are by you kept back by fraud, cry out: and the cries of those who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

James 5:6

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