James 5:6
you condemned—you murdered the righteous; he does not resist you.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 53:7It has been exacted, and He has answered, || And He does not open His mouth, || He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, || And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, || So He does not open His mouth.
Matthew 21:38and the farmers having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
Matthew 26:53do you think that I am not able now to call on My Father, and He will place beside Me more than twelve legions of messengers?
Matthew 27:24And Pilate having seen that it profits nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he washed the hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent from the blood of this Righteous One; you will see [to it] yourselves”;
John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues, but an hour comes that everyone who has killed you may think to offer service to God;
Acts 2:22Men, Israelites! Hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through Him in the midst of you, according as also you yourselves have known,
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 →