James 2:6

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Summary

James 2:6

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

Do

General references

Exodus 23:6

Leviticus 19:15

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Bible References

Do

Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.

If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For [a man] higher than the high is observing, and there are higher [men] than they.

LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the rulers of it. It is ye who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of a poor man is in your houses.

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes--

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

Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Thou pierced with his own staves the head of his warriors. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor man secretly.

And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

General references

Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to thy poor in his case.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shall not respect the person of the poor man, nor honor the person of the mighty man, but thou shall judge thy neighbor in righteousness.

And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.