James 5:6

The rich have condemned and killed the righteous, who offered no resistance. Their oppression of the innocent will not go unanswered by God.

Cross-references · 22

• 1 Pet 2:22–23who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
• Luke 22:51–53But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this” — and he touched his ear, and healed him.
• John 19:9–11He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
• Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
• Acts 8:32Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
• Matt 5:39But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
• Matt 23:34–35Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
• Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• Acts 4:10–12be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
• Acts 3:14–15But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
• Jas 4:2You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
• Acts 2:22–23“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,
• Acts 22:14He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
• Matt 26:53–54Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
• Matt 21:38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’
• Acts 13:27–28For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
• Matt 27:24–25So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”
• Jas 2:6But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
• Matt 27:20Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
• John 16:2–3They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

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