James 2:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you, is it not they who drag you into court?

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? and do not they draw you before the judgment seats?

James 2:6 Tagairtí Cros

Job 20:19

For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.

Psalm 10:10

The hapless is crushed, sinks down, and falls by his might.

Psalm 10:14

Thou dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation, that thou mayst take it into thy hands; the hapless commits himself to thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes which they have devised.

Psalm 10:8

He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the hapless,

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

Psalm 14:6

You would confound the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 17:5

He who mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Amos 4:1

“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions 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 their wine.

Habakkuk 3:14

Thou didst pierce with thy shafts the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.”

John 8:49

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

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

Acts 17:6

And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren before the city authorities, crying, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Acts 18:12

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack upon Paul and brought him before the tribunal,

Acts 8:3

But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.

1 Corinthians 11:22

What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.

James 2:3

and you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “Have a seat here, please,” while you say to the poor man, “Stand there,” or, “Sit at my feet,”

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.