who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
James 5:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You have condemned and have murdered the righteous (innocent man), [while] he offers no resistance to you. American Standard Version (1901) Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you. Common English Bible You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who doesn’t oppose you. Catholic Public Domain Version You led away and killed the Just One, and he did not resist you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not. |
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter and like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not open his mouth.
‘But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to each other, “This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.”
The chief priests and the elders, however, persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to execute Jesus.
But I tell you, don’t resist an evildoer. On the contrary, if anyone slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
And he said, “The God of our ancestors has appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear the words from his mouth,
Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.
Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this: He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb is silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.
But my righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, I have no pleasure in him. ,
Yet you have dishonoured the poor. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into court?
You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
And if a righteous person is saved with difficulty, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? ,