James 2:6

Partiality Forbidden

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not? ⁶ But you have humiliated the man who is poor. Are not rich people the ones who oppress you and drag you into court? ⁷ Are not they the ones who blaspheme the noble Name by which you have been called?

Dishonored the Poor Man

Despised The Poor

1 Corinthians 11:22

You have homes in which to eat and drink, don't you? Or do you despise God's church and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

Psalm 14:6

You would frustrate the plans of the oppressed, but the LORD is their refuge.

Acts 8:3

But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

Acts 17:6

When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, "These fellows who have turned the world upside down have come here, too,

Acts 18:12

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jewish leaders gathered together, attacked Paul, and brought him before the judge's seat.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the one who is righteous, even though he did not rebel against you.

1 Kings 21:11-13

So the leading men of the city, along with the elders and nobles who lived there, did precisely what Jezebel had directed them to do. They followed the instructions that she had set forth in the memos:

Job 20:19

because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked one arrogantly pursues the afflicted, who are trapped in the schemes he devises.

Psalm 10:8

They wait in ambush in the villages, they kill the innocent in secret.

Psalm 10:10

The victim is crushed, and he sinks down; the helpless fall by their might.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see! You take note of trouble and grief in order to take the matter into your own hand. The helpless one commits himself to you; you have been the orphan's helper.

Psalm 12:5

"Because the poor are being oppressed, because the needy are sighing, I will now arise," says the LORD, "I will establish in safety those who yearn for it."

Proverbs 14:31

Whoever oppresses the poor defies their Creator, but whoever is kind to the needy honors them.

Proverbs 17:5

Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker, and whoever is happy about disaster will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor to enrich himself and whoever gives gifts to the wealthy will yield only loss.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.

Ecclesiastes 9:15-16

Now there was found within it a poor, but wise man. He delivered the city by his wisdom, but not one person remembered that poor man.

Isaiah 3:14-15

The LORD will go to court to oppose the elders and princes of his people: "You're the ones who have been devouring the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your own houses!

Isaiah 53:3

"He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.

Amos 2:6-7

This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Israel and now for a fourth I will not turn away; because they sold the righteous for money, and the poor for sandals,

Amos 4:1

"Listen to this message, you fat cows from Bashan, who live on the Samaritan mountains, who oppress the poor, who rob the needy, and who constantly ask your husbands for one more drink!"

Amos 5:11

"Therefore, since you trample the poor continuously, taxing his grain, building houses of stone in which you won't live and planting fine vineyards from which you won't drink

Amos 8:4-6

"Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail,

Micah 6:11-12

Will I tolerate those who maintain deceptive standards and who use deceitful weights in their business?

Habakkuk 3:14

With his own lances you pierced the heads of his warriors, who came out like a windstorm to scatter us their joy is to devour the afflicted who are in hiding.

Zechariah 7:10

You are not to wrong the widow, orphans, the foreigner, or the poor, and you are not to plan evil against each other.

Acts 4:1-3

While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the Temple guards, and the Sadducees came to them.

Acts 4:26-28

The kings of the earth take their stand, and rulers meet together against the Lord and against his Messiah.'

Acts 5:17-18

Then the high priest and all those from the sect of the Sadducees who were with him were filled with jealousy. So they went out,

Acts 5:26-27

So the commander of the Temple guards went with his men to bring them back without force, because they were afraid of being stoned to death by the people.

Acts 13:50

But the Jewish leaders stirred up devout women of high social standing and the officials in the city, started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their territory.

Acts 16:19-20

When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities who met together in the public square.

James 2:3

If you give special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, "Please take this seat," but you say to the poor man, "Stand over there" or "Sit on the floor at my feet,"

James 5:4

Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.

John 8:49

Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon. On the contrary, I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.