James 5:6

Woes On The Rich Who Oppress Others

⁵ You have lived luxuriously and voluptuously here on earth; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter. ⁶ You have condemned and murdered the upright. Will he make no resistance? ⁷ So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains.

Put to Death

Righteous Man

Righteous One

No

Matthew 5:39

But I tell you not to resist injury, but if anyone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other to him too;

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw his son, they said to one another. 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and get his inheritance!'

Matthew 23:34-35

This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;

Matthew 26:53-54

Do you suppose I cannot appeal to my Father, and he would at once furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?

Matthew 27:20

But the high priests and the elders prevailed on the crowd to ask for Barabbas, and to have Jesus put to death.

Matthew 27:24-25

When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing but that a riot was beginning instead, he took some water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."

Luke 22:51-53

But Jesus answered, "Let me do this much!" And he touched his ear and healed him.

John 16:2-3

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

John 19:9-11

and he went back into the governor's house and said to Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus made no answer.

Acts 2:22-23

"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.

Acts 3:14-15

But you disowned the Holy, Righteous One. You asked to have a murderer released for you,

Acts 4:10-12

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

Acts 8:32

This was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, And just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, He does not open his mouth.

Acts 13:27-28

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

Acts 22:14

and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak,

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind

Hebrews 10:38

And he whom I accept as righteous will find life through his faith. But if a man draws back, my heart can take no pleasure in him."

James 2:6

But you humiliate the poor. Are not the rich your oppressors? Is it not they who drag you into court?

James 4:2

You crave things, and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, and cannot get them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have things because you do not ask for them.

1 Peter 2:22-23

He committed no sin, and deceit was never on his lips.