James 2:6

Partiality Forbidden

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court? ⁷ Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?

Dishonored the Poor Man

Despised The Poor

1 Corinthians 11:22

What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.

Psalm 14:6

You would shame the plans of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.

Acts 8:3

But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.

Acts 17:6

And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Acts 18:12

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.

1 Kings 21:11-13

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

Job 20:19

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

Psalm 10:2

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

Psalm 10:8

He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

Psalm 10:10

The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 12:5

"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."

Proverbs 14:31

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 17:5

Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 22:16

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

Ecclesiastes 5:8

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:15-16

But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Isaiah 3:14-15

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.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Amos 2:6-7

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--

Amos 4:1

"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!'

Amos 5:11

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.

Amos 8:4-6

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

Micah 6:11-12

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

Habakkuk 3:14

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.

Zechariah 7:10

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

Acts 4:1-3

And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

Acts 4:26-28

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed'--

Acts 5:17-18

But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy

Acts 5:26-27

Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

Acts 16:19-20

But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

James 2:3

and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, "You sit here in a good place,"while you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit down at my feet,"

James 5:4

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.

John 8:49

Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.