James 2:6

Partiality Forbidden

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts? ⁷ Do they themselves not blaspheme the good name {of the one to whom you belong}?

Dishonored the Poor Man

Despised The Poor

1 Corinthians 11:22

For do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who do not have [anything]? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise [you]!

Psalm 14:6

You would put to shame [the] plan of [the] poor, because Yahweh [is] his refuge.

Acts 8:3

But Saul was attempting to destroy the church. Entering {house after house}, he dragged off both men and women [and] delivered [them] to prison.

Acts 17:6

And [when they] did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, "These [people] who have stirred up trouble [throughout] the world have come here also,

Acts 18:12

Now [when] Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one purpose against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous [person]; he does not resist you.

1 Kings 21:11-13

The men of his city and the elders and nobles who were living in his city did according to what Jezebel had sent to them, as [was] written in the letters which she had sent to them.

Job 20:19

for he has oppressed; he has abandoned [the] poor; he has seized a house but did not build it.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance [the] wicked persecutes [the] poor. Let them be caught in [the] schemes that they devised,

Psalm 10:8

He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills [the] innocent. His eyes {lurk} for [the] helpless.

Psalm 10:10

He is crushed; he is bowed down; so the helpless host falls by his {might}.

Psalm 10:14

[But] you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take [it] into your hand. The helpless abandons [himself] upon you; you have been [the] helper [for the] orphan.

Psalm 12:5

"Because of [the] oppression of [the] afflicted, because of [the] groaning of [the] poor, now I will rise up," Yahweh says. "I shall put [them] in [the] safety [for which] they long."

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor insults him who made him, but he who has mercy on the poor honors him.

Proverbs 17:5

He who mocks the poor insults him who made him; he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 22:16

He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Do not be surprised if you see the poor being oppressed with violence or [do not see] justice and righteousness in the province. For one official is watched by a higher official, and [there are] even higher officials over them!

Ecclesiastes 9:15-16

Now, a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom.

Isaiah 3:14-15

Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. "And you! You 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 suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.

Amos 2:6-7

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, [you] cows of Bashan who [live] on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring [something] so that we may drink!"

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on [the] poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, those who trample on [the] poor and who annihilate the afflicted of [the] land,

Micah 6:11-12

Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows; they came like a whirlwind to scatter me, their exultation like [one who] devours the afflicted in ambush.

Zechariah 7:10

You must not oppress [the] widow, [the] orphan, [the] foreigner, and [the] needy. You must not devise evil in your heart {against one another}.'

Acts 4:1-3

And [while] they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees approached them,

Acts 4:26-28

The kings of the earth stood opposed, and the rulers assembled together at the same [place], against the Lord and against his Christ.'

Acts 5:17-18

Now the high priest rose up and all those [who were] with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), [and] they were filled with jealousy.

Acts 5:26-27

Then the captain went with the officers [and] brought them, not with force (for they were afraid of the people, lest they be stoned [by them]).

Acts 13:50

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

Acts 16:19-20

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

James 2:3

and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, "Be seated here in a good place," and to the poor person you say, "You stand or be seated there by my footstool,"

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

John 8:49

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