James 5:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights!

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’

Matthew 27:20

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you: Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also,

Acts 22:14

Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear his own voice,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

Acts 8:32

Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.

Hebrews 10:38

but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”

James 2:6

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?

James 4:2

You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it, so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have because you do not ask.

1 Peter 4:18

And “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”