James 2:6

World Messianic Bible British Edition

But you have dishonoured the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?

Cross References

Job 20:19

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

Psalm 10:10

The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Psalm 10:8

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Psalm 14:6

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honours him.

Proverbs 17:5

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

Zechariah 7:10

Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

John 8:49

Yeshua answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honour my Father and you dishonour me.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

Acts 17:6

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Acts 18:12

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgement seat,

Acts 8:3

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

James 2:3

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

James 5:4

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

James 5:6

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.