James 5:6
You have condemned, you have murdered, the righteous one! Must not God be opposed to you?
Open English Bible (US)
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 the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other ‘Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.’
Matthew 26:53Do you think that I cannot ask my Father for help, when he would at once send to my aid more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw that his efforts were unavailing, but that, on the contrary, a riot was beginning, he took some water, and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying as he did so, “I am not answerable for this bloodshed; you must see to it yourselves.”
John 16:2They will expel you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that they are making an offering to God.
Acts 2:22People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Jesus of Nazareth, a man whose mission from God to you was proved by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God showed among you through him, as you know full well –
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 →