James 2:6 “But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you a…”

James 2:6

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

World English Bible

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?

American Standard Version

But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

Geneva Bible 1599

But ye haue despised the poore. Doe not the riche oppresse you by tyrannie, and doe not they drawe you before the iudgement seates?

Darby Translation

But ye have despised the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and [do not] they drag you before [the] tribunals?

Young's Literal Translation

and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

Bible in Basic English

But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

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Cross references

“ye”

Proverbs 17:5 Proverbs 14:31 1 Corinthians 11:22 Psalm 14:6 James 2:3 Isaiah 53:3

Proverbs 17:5 · BSB

He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 14:31 · BSB

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

1 Corinthians 11:22 · BSB

Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!

Psalm 14:6 · BSB

You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.

James 2:3 · BSB

If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”

Isaiah 53:3 · BSB

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

“Do”

James 5:4 Psalm 10:14 Psalm 12:5 Proverbs 22:16 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Amos 5:11

James 5:4 · BSB

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Psalm 10:14 · BSB

But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 12:5 · BSB

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

Proverbs 22:16 · BSB

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 · BSB

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.

Amos 5:11 · BSB

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

“and”

Acts 13:50 Acts 17:6 James 5:6 1 Kings 21:11–13 Acts 4:1–3 Acts 4:26–28

Acts 13:50 · BSB

The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.

Acts 17:6 · BSB

But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,

James 5:6 · BSB

You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.

1 Kings 21:11–13 · BSB

So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.

Acts 4:1–3 · BSB

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Acts 4:26–28 · BSB

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

Also

Acts 8:3

Acts 8:3 · BSB

But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

7Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?

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