James 5:6

New Living Translation

You have condemned and killed innocent people, who do not resist you.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:23

They take bribes to let the wicked go free, and they punish the innocent.

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.

Matthew 21:38

“But when the tenant farmers saw his son coming, they said to one another, ‘Here comes the heir to this estate. Come on, let’s kill him and get the estate for ourselves!’

Matthew 27:20

Meanwhile, the leading priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas to be released and for Jesus to be put to death.

Matthew 5:39

But I say, do not resist an evil person! If someone slaps you on the right cheek, offer the other cheek also.

Acts 22:14

“Then he told me, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and hear him speak.

Acts 7:52

Name one prophet your ancestors didn’t persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One—the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

Acts 8:32

The passage of Scripture he had been reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter. And as a lamb is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.

Hebrews 10:38

And my righteous ones will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”

James 2:6

But you dishonor the poor! Isn’t it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

James 4:2

You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.

1 Peter 4:18

And also, “If the righteous are barely saved, what will happen to godless sinners?”