James 2:6 - King James 2000

⁶ But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judges?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But you [in contrast] have insulted (humiliated, dishonored, and shown your contempt for) the poor. Is it not the rich who domineer over you? Is it not they who drag you into the law courts?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

Common English Bible

⁶ But you have dishonored the poor. Don’t the wealthy make life difficult for you? Aren’t they the ones who drag you into court?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you through power? And are not they the ones who drag you to judgment?

James 2:6 Tagairtí Cros

Job 20:19

Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he built not;

Psalm 10:10

He crouches, and lies low, that the poor may fall by his strength.

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 10:8

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

Psalm 14:6

You have shamed the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.

Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.

Proverbs 17:5

Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor uses entreaties; but the rich answers roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for the high official is watched by a higher one ; and there are yet higher ones over them.

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 5:11

Since therefore you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

Habakkuk 3:14

You did thrust through with his own arrows the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was like devouring the poor secretly.

Zechariah 7:10

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

John 8:49

Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and you do dishonor me.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their district.

Acts 17:6

And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come here also;

Acts 18:12

And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made an attack with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,

Acts 8:3

As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and dragging off men and women committed them to prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

James 2:3

And you have respect to him that wears the fine clothing, and say unto him, Sit here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool:

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 5:6

You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.