James 2:6

Tree of Life Version

But you have dishonored the poor person. Isn’t it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

Cross References

Job 20:19

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

Psalm 10:10

The victim is crushed, brought down, and falls into his mighty claws.

Psalm 10:14

You saw—for You see trouble and grief, to take it in Your hand. The victim puts his trust in You— You are the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 10:2

In pride the wicked hotly hunts the poor. Let them be caught in the plots they have planned.

Psalm 10:8

He lies in ambush near villages. In hidden places he slays the innocent. His eyes watch in secret for the helpless.

Psalm 12:5

They say: “With our tongue we’ll prevail. We own our lips—who can master us?”

Psalm 14:6

You would frustrate the plan of the lowly. Surely Adonai is his refuge!

Proverbs 14:31

The one who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Proverbs 17:5

Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker. Whoever rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor request favor, but the rich answer harshly.

Proverbs 22:16

The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain, and the one who gives to the rich— both end in poverty.

Proverbs 22:7

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

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Though the profit of the land is taken by all, a king is served by the fields.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, One from whom people hide their faces. He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on Samaria’s hill, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters: “Bring, so we may drink.”

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, exacting from him a burden of grain, you built houses of hewn stone, but will not dwell in them, you planted pleasant vineyards, but will not drink their wine.

Habakkuk 3:14

You have pierced his chief rulers with his own staff— They stormed in to scatter me. Their exultation is like devouring the weak in secret.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the outsider or the poor. Furthermore, do not let any of you devise evil against one another in your heart.’

John 8:49

Yeshua answered, “I do not have a demon! I honor My Father, yet you dishonor Me.

Acts 13:50

But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and they drove them out of their district.

Acts 17:6

When they did not find them, they instead began dragging Jason and some of the brethren before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have upset the world have come here too,

Acts 18:12

But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jewish leaders made a united attack against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

Acts 8:3

But Saul was destroying Messiah’s community, entering house after house; and dragging off men and women, he was throwing them into prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

What! It is certainly not that you do not have houses, is it? Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise God’s community and try to humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? I don’t praise you for this!

James 2:3

and you pay special attention to the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, “Sit here in a good place”; and you say to the poor person, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”;

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the workers who mowed your fields—which you kept back by fraud—are crying out against you. And the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous person—he does not resist you.