James 5:6

You have judged good people and said, “Those people are bad.” They couldn't do anything and so you murdered them.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5You have done whatever you liked here in this world. You have thought about yourselves all the time. You have done just as you wanted day and night, eating and growing fat. Listen! When bullocks grow fat, what do people do? They kill them, so now you are like that fat bullock!

7Brothers and sisters, keep going carefully along God's road until Jesus comes back again. Think about yams. When it rains they get fat for you to eat. You wait patiently until they get fat and when the time comes you dig them.

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Matthew Henry on James 5:2-12

Warnings to the Rich; Motives to Patience under Affliction. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and… Read the whole commentary →

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