James 2:6

Partiality Forbidden

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world that they might be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those that 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 Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called?

Dishonored the Poor Man

Despised The Poor

1 Corinthians 11:22

What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the congregation of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

Psalm 14:6

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor because the LORD is his hope.

Acts 8:3

As for Saul, he made havoc of the congregation ; entering into the houses and dragging out men and women, he committed them to prison.

Acts 17:6

And when they did not find them, they brought Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Acts 18:12

And when Gallio was the proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

James 5:6

Ye have condemned and murdered the just, and he does not resist you.

1 Kings 21:11-13

And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

Job 20:19

Because he oppressed and forsook the poor; because he has violently taken away houses which he did not build,

Psalm 10:2

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 10:8

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places he murders the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

Psalm 10:10

He crouches and hides himself, and many are those who fall under his power.

Psalm 10:14

Thou hast seen it, for thou dost behold mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poor commits himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, saith the LORD; I will set in safety the one whom the wicked one has ensnared.

Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he that has mercy on the poor, honours him.

Proverbs 17:5

Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he that is glad regarding the calamity of someone else shall not go unpunished.

Proverbs 22:16

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest violence unto the poor and the extortion of rights and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for height is looking upon height; and there is one higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 9:15-16

now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no one remembered that same poor man.

Isaiah 3:14-15

The LORD will come with judgment against the elders of his people and against these his princes, for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected among men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with weakness; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Amos 2:6-7

Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Israel and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes,

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 5:11

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

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, and cut off the poor of the land,

Micah 6:11-12

Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Habakkuk 3:14

Thou didst strike through with his staffs the heads of his villages, who as a whirlwind attempted to scatter me; their pride was as to devour the poor secretly.

Zechariah 7:10

and do not oppress the widow nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Acts 4:1-3

And as they spoke unto 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 were present, and the princes were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

Acts 5:17-18

Then the prince of the priests rose up, and all those that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees) were filled with jealousy

Acts 5:26-27

Then the captain with the officers went and brought them without violence, for they feared being stoned by the people.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the principals of the city and raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their borders.

Acts 16:19-20

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers

James 2:3

and ye have respect to him that wears the precious clothing and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there or sit here under my footstool:

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.

John 8:49

Jesus answered, I do not have a demon; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.