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 have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the 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 arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, do not marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

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

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks."

Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

Do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

General references

"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

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.