James 2:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?

Cross References

Job 20:19

For they have crushed and abandoned the poor; they have seized a house that they did not build.

Psalm 10:10

They stoop, they crouch, and the helpless fall by their might.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see! Indeed, you note trouble and grief, that you may take it into your hands; the helpless commit themselves to you; you have been the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor— let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

Psalm 10:8

They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

Psalm 14:6

You would confound the plans of the poor, but the Lord is their refuge.

Proverbs 14:31

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.

Proverbs 17:5

Those who mock the poor insult their Maker; those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.

Proverbs 22:7

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

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and right, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity, and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and we held him of no account.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierced with their own arrows the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter us, gloating as if ready to devour the poor who were in hiding.

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

John 8:49

Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their region.

Acts 17:6

When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers and sisters before the city authorities, shouting, “These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also,

Acts 18:12

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal.

Acts 8:3

But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

What! Do you not have households to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter I do not commend you!

James 2:3

and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat here in a good place, please,” while to the one who is poor you say, “Stand there,” or, “Sit by my footstool,”

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.