James 5:6
You have condemned; you have murdered the just. He does not resist you. 1 Patience in Suffering
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 21:38But when the farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and let us gain possession of his inheritance.’
Matthew 26:53Or do you think that I cannot now call upon My Father, and He will furnish Me with more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 27:24And Pilate, seeing that nothing was being gained, but rather a riot was starting, taking water, he washed his hands clean in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Man. You see to it.”
John 16:2They will excommunicate you; but the time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.
Acts 2:22“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves also know—
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 →