James 2:6
But you dishonored the poor one. Do the rich not oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
In Context
7Do they not themselves speak evil of the good Name having been called on you?
Cross References
Job 20:19For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, || He has taken a house away violently, || And he does not build it.
Psalms 10:8He sits in an ambush of the villages, || He slays the innocent in secret places. His eyes secretly watch for the afflicted,
Psalms 10:14You have seen, || For You behold perverseness and anger; By giving into Your hand, || The afflicted leave [it] on You, || You have been a helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 14:6You cause the counsel of the poor to stink, || Because YHWH [is] his refuge.
Proverbs 17:5Whoever is mocking at the poor || Has reproached his Maker, || Whoever is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.
Ecclesiastes 5:8If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness you see in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones [are] over them.
Matthew Henry on James 2:2-8
Regard Due to Poor Christians; Partiality Condemned. ( a. d. 61.) 1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: 4 Are ye not then partial in… Read the whole commentary →