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 wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff.

He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, bringeth only to want.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, saying: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

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

Forasmuch, therefore, as ye trample upon the poor, and take from him presents of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, and ye shall not drink the wine of them.

Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,

Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Thou didst strike through with his own spears the head of his leaders: They came out as a whirlwind to scatter me, Whose exulting was as to devour the afflicted secretly.

and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

General references

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the lowly, nor honour the person of the great; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

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