James 2:6

Partiality Forbidden

⁵ Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him? ⁶ And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals? ⁷ And do they not defame the good name called upon you?

Dishonored the Poor Man

Despised The Poor

1 Corinthians 11:22

For, have ye not houses for eating and drinking? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them not having? What should I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise not.

Psalm 14:6

Ye will shame the counsel of the poor, for Jehovah is his refuge.

Acts 8:3

And Saul abused the church, going into houses, and drawing out men and women, delivered to prison.

Acts 17:6

And not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, That those having subverted the habitable globe, these also are present here;

Acts 18:12

And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews arose unanimously against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just one; and he resists you not.

1 Kings 21:11-13

And the men of his city, the old men and the nobles, who were dwelling in his city, will do as Jezebel sent to them, according to what was written in the letters which she sent to them.

Job 20:19

For he oppressed, forsaking the poor; he stripped the house and he will not build it up.

Psalm 10:2

In the pride of the unjust he will burn the poor: they shall be taken in the devices that they purposed.

Psalm 10:8

Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted.

Psalm 10:10

And crushing, he will bow down, and cast down the afflicted by his strong ones.

Psalm 10:14

Thou sawest; for thou wilt look upon trouble and anger, to give with thine hand: the poor will be left to thee; thou wert the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 12:5

From the oppression of the poor, from the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, Jehovah will say; I will set with salvation, he will puff at him.

Proverbs 14:31

He oppressing the poor reproached him making him: and he honoring him compassionated the needy.

Proverbs 17:5

He mocking to the poor one reproached him making him: and he rejoicing at misfortune shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 22:16

He oppressing the poor one to increase for himself, he gave to the rich; also to want

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

Ecclesiastes 9:15-16

And a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; and not a man remembered that poor man.

Isaiah 3:14-15

Jehovah will go into judgment with the old men of his people and his chiefs: and ye burnt up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and forsaken of men; a man of griefs and knowing affliction: and as hiding the faces from him; he was despised and we regarded him not

Amos 2:6-7

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn it back, for their selling the just one for silver and the needy for shoes;

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye heifers of Bashan, which are upon the mountain of Shomeron, oppressing the poor, breaking in pieces the needy, saying to their lords, Bring, and we will drink.

Amos 5:11

For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, ye, panting after the needy, to cause the humble of the, land to cease.

Micah 6:11-12

Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit?

Habakkuk 3:14

Thou didst pierce with rods the head of the leader: they will rush on as a tempest to scatter me their exultation as to devour the poor in secret

Zechariah 7:10

And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother.

Acts 4:1-3

And they speaking to the people, the priests, and commander of the temple, and the Sadducees, resisted them,

Acts 4:26-28

Kings of the earth stood up, and rulers were gathered together upon one and the same, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Acts 5:17-18

And the chief priest having risen, and all they with him, (the sect being of the Sadducees,) they were filled with zeal,

Acts 5:26-27

Then the commander having gone with attendants, brought them, not with force: for they feared the people, lest they might be stoned.

Acts 13:50

And the Jews urged on the worshipping and distinguished women, and the first men of the city, and they raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and they cast them out of their bounds,

Acts 16:19-20

And her lords having seen that the hope of their gain went out, taking Paul and Silas, they drew to the assembly to the rulers,

James 2:3

And ye look toward him bearing the brilliant clothing, and ye say to him, Sit thou well here; and to the beggar ye say, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

John 8:49

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