James 2:6

Partiality Forbidden

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him? ⁶ Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? ⁷ Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?

Dishonored the Poor Man

Despised The Poor

1 Corinthians 11:22

Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!

Psalm 14:6

You sinners frustrate the plans of the afflicted,
but the Lord is his refuge.

Acts 8:3

Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

Acts 17:6

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

Acts 18:12

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the judge’s bench.

James 5:6

You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.

1 Kings 21:11-13

The men of his city, the elders and nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had commanded them, as was written in the letters she had sent them.

Job 20:19

For he oppressed and abandoned the poor;
he seized a house he did not build.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted;
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

Psalm 10:8

He waits in ambush near the villages;
he kills the innocent in secret places.
His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;

Psalm 10:10

So he is oppressed and beaten down;
the helpless fall because of his strength.

Psalm 10:14

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the oppression of the afflicted
and the groaning of the poor,
I will now rise up,” says the Lord.
“I will put the one who longs for it in a safe place.”

Proverbs 14:31

The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker,
but one who is kind to the needy honors Him.

Proverbs 17:5

The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker,
and one who rejoices over calamity
will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich—both lead only to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

Ecclesiastes 9:15-16

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

Isaiah 3:14-15

The Lord brings this charge
against the elders and leaders of His people:
“You have devastated the vineyard.
The plunder from the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

Amos 2:6-7

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Israel
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan
who are on the hill of Samaria,
women who oppress the poor
and crush the needy,
who say to their husbands,
“Bring us something to drink.”

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,

Micah 6:11-12

Can I excuse wicked scales
or bags of deceptive weights?

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierce his head
with his own spears;
his warriors storm out to scatter us,
gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.

Acts 4:1-3

Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the temple police, and the Sadducees confronted them,

Acts 4:26-28

The kings of the earth took their stand
and the rulers assembled together
against the Lord and against His Messiah.

Acts 5:17-18

Then the high priest took action. He and all his colleagues, those who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

Acts 5:26-27

Then the commander went with the temple police and brought them in without force, because they were afraid the people might stone them.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the prominent women, who worshiped God, and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

Acts 16:19-20

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

James 2:3

If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”

James 5:4

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

John 8:49

“I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered. “On the contrary, I honor My Father and you dishonor Me.