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 17:5Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
• 1 Cor 11:22What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
• Prov 14:31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
• Ps 14:6Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
• Isa 3:14–15The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
• Eccl 9:15–16Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
• Acts 16:19–20And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
• Amos 5:11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
• Prov 22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
• Ps 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Mic 6:11–12Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
• Zech 7:10And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
• Eccl 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
• Jas 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
• Jas 2:3And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
• Acts 17:6And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;
• Acts 8:3As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
• Amos 2:6–7Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
• Ps 10:14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
• Amos 4:1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
• Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• 1 Kgs 21:11–13And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
• Acts 4:1–3And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
• Ps 10:8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
• Acts 18:12And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,
• Job 20:19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
• Ps 10:2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
• Acts 5:26–27Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
• Hab 3:14Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
• Ps 10:10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
• Acts 4:26–28The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
• Acts 5:17–18Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
• Jas 5:6Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
• John 8:49Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.

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