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 the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.

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

"Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals--

"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'

Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, 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.

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,

Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?

You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.

do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart."

General references

"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

"You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

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