James 5:6

You have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5For you have lived daintily on the earth, and have been wanton, and have nourished your bodies, as for the day of slaughter.

7BUT you, my brethren, prolong your spirit until the coming of the Lord; as the husbandman who expecteth the precious fruits of his lands, and prolongeth his spirit for them, until he receive the rain the early and the latter;

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Cross References

Matthew 21:38But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take the inheritance.

Matthew 26:53Or thinkest thou that I cannot request from my Father, and he shall appoint to me now more than twelve legions of angels?

Matthew 27:24Then Pilatos, when he saw that nothing availed, but that the tumult became greater, took waters (and) washed his hands before the assembly, and said, I am expiated from the blood of this Just One. You shall know.

John 16:2They shall cast you out from their synagogues; and the hour cometh when every one who shall kill you will think that a sacrifice he offereth unto Aloha.

Acts 2:22MEN, sons of Israel, hear these words; Jeshu Natsroya, the man who from Aloha appeared with you, with powers and mighty acts, which Aloha wrought among you by his hand, (even) as you 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 →

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