James 5:6

You have condemned and killed the just man; and he does not resist you.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5You have lived in luxury on the earth, and in self-indulgence; you have fattened your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

7Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and is patient for it, until it receives the early and the late rains.

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Cross References

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

Matthew 26:53Do you think that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall at once give me more than twelve legions of angels?

Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw that he could not prevail, but rather that a tumult was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of this man's blood: you see to it yourselves.

John 16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time comes when whoever kills you will think that he is serving God.

Acts 2:22You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs, which God performed by him in your midst, as you yourselves 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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