James 2:6

Partiality Forbidden

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him? ⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme that worthy Name by which you are called?

Dishonored the Poor Man

Despised The Poor

1 Corinthians 11:22

For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise you!

Psalm 14:6

You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because Jehovah is his refuge.

Acts 8:3

But Saul ravaged the church, entering into every house. And dragging men and women, he delivered them up to prison.

Acts 17:6

And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brothers before the city judges, crying, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

Acts 18:12

But Gallio being pro-consul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rushed against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

James 5:6

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

1 Kings 21:11-13

And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.

Job 20:19

For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the plans that they have imagined.

Psalm 10:8

He sits in the hiding-places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor.

Psalm 10:10

He crouches and bows, and the poor have fallen by his might.

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it; for You behold mischief and vexation, to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

Proverbs 14:31

He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor.

Proverbs 17:5

Whoever scorns the poor reviles his Maker; he who is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 22:16

He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 9:15-16

And a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that poor man.

Isaiah 3:14-15

Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their kings; for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Amos 2:6-7

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals;

Amos 4:1

Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.

Amos 5:11

So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

Micah 6:11-12

Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierced the head of his warriors with his shafts; they storm out to scatter me; their rejoicing is to devour the meek in a secret place.

Zechariah 7:10

And do not crush the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man against his brother.

Acts 4:1-3

And as they spoke to the people, the priests, and the temple commander, and the Sadducees came on them,

Acts 4:26-28

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ."

Acts 5:17-18

And rising up, the high priest, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees) were filled with anger,

Acts 5:26-27

Then the commander went with the officers and brought them, not with force, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief ones of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their borders.

Acts 16:19-20

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gain went out, having seized Paul and Silas, they dragged them to the market before the rulers.

James 2:3

and if you have respect to him who has the fancy clothing and say to him, You sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, You stand there, or sit here under my footstool;

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

John 8:49

Jesus answered, I do not have a demon, but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.