who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
James 5:6 - Y'all Version Bible Y’all have condemned and murdered the righteous person who was not resisting y’all. 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, but deny justice for the innocent!
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
But the tenants, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’
Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Jesus Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.
But I tell y’all, don’t resist an evil person. But if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other cheek to them as well.
Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear speech from his mouth.
Which one of the prophets didn’t y’all’s ancestors persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers y’all have now become!
Now the passage of the Scripture he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb is silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.
But my righteous one will live by faith. But in the one who shrinks back, my soul takes no pleasure.”
But y’all have dishonored the poor. Don’t the rich oppress y’all and personally drag y’all into court?
Y’all lust but don’t have, so y’all murder. Y’all covet, but aren’t able to get, so y’all argue and battle. Y’all don’t have, because y’all don’t ask.
“If it is difficult for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”