who justify the wicked for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of justice!
James 5:6 - Tree of Life Version You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous person—he 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 justify the wicked for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of justice!
He was oppressed and He was afflicted yet He did not open His mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter, like a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
“But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir! Come on, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’
Now the ruling kohanim and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Bar-Abba and destroy Yeshua.
But I tell you, do not resist an evildoer. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other.
“And he said, ‘The God of our fathers handpicked you to know His will—to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth.
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed the ones who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. Now you have become His betrayers and murderers—
Now the passage of Scripture that he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He opens not His Mouth.
But My righteous one shall live by emunah; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him.”
But you have dishonored the poor person. Isn’t it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
You crave and have not. You murder and you envy, yet you cannot get it. You fight and you wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
Now, “if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what shall become of the ungodly and the sinner?”