James 5:6

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James 5:6

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

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But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court?

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

"Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know

But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands before you healed.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.

Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men,

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But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. But if someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

But Jesus answered, "No more of this!" And he touched his ear and healed him.

and he went again into the Praetorium and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.

Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he does not open his mouth.

"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth;"