James 2:6

Yet they have dishonored the poor, while it is often the rich who oppress them and drag them into court. Their favoritism is both unjust and foolish.

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• Prov 17:5He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
• 1 Cor 11:22Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
• Prov 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
• Ps 14:6You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.
• Isa 3:14–15The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
• Eccl 9:15–16Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
• Acts 16:19–20When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
• Acts 13:50The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
• Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
• Prov 22:16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
• Ps 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
• Mic 6:11–12Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
• Zech 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
• Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
• Jas 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
• Jas 2:3If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”
• Acts 17:6But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,
• Acts 8:3But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
• Amos 2:6–7This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
• Ps 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
• Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
• Isa 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
• 1 Kgs 21:11–13So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
• Acts 4:1–3While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
• Ps 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
• Acts 18:12While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews coordinated an attack on Paul and brought him before the judgment seat.
• Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
• Ps 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
• Acts 5:26–27At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
• Hab 3:14With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
• Ps 10:10They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.
• Acts 4:26–28The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’
• Acts 5:17–18Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out
• Jas 5:6You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
• John 8:49“I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

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