James 2:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

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  • 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.
  • Acts 17:6 : 6 And when they were not able to get them, they took Jason and some of the brothers by force before the rulers of the town, crying, These men, who have made trouble all over the world have now come here;
  • Acts 18:12 : 12 But when Gallio was ruler of Achaia, all the Jews together made an attack on Paul, and took him to the judge's seat,
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul was burning with hate against the church, going into every house and taking men and women and putting them in prison.
  • Acts 13:50 : 50 But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.
  • Ps 14:6 : 6 You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
  • Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
  • Eccl 9:15-16 : 15 Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man. 16 Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.
  • Isa 3:14-15 : 14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force. 15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes; 7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit; 6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
  • Mic 6:11-12 : 11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment? 12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
  • Hab 3:14 : 14 You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
  • Acts 16:19-20 : 19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers; 20 And when they had taken them before the authorities, they said, These men, who are Jews, are greatly troubling our town;
  • 1 Kgs 21:11-13 : 11 So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them. 12 They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people. 13 And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
  • Jas 2:3 : 3 And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
  • Ps 10:2 : 2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
  • Ps 10:8 : 8 He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
  • Ps 10:10 : 10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
  • Ps 10:14 : 14 You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.
  • Acts 4:1-3 : 1 And while they were talking to the people, the priests and the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees came up to them, 2 Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead. 3 And they took them and put them in prison till the morning, for it was now evening.
  • Acts 4:26-28 : 26 The kings of the earth were lifted up, the rulers came together, against the Lord, and against his Christ: 27 For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together, 28 To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
  • Acts 5:17-18 : 17 But the high priest and those who were with him (the Sadducees) were full of envy, 18 And they took the Apostles and put them in the common prison.
  • Acts 5:26-27 : 26 Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people. 27 And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,
  • Job 20:19 : 19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
  • John 8:49 : 49 And this was the answer of Jesus: I have not an evil spirit; but I give honour to my Father and you do not give honour to me.

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    1 My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.

    2 For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,

    3 And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;

    4 Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

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  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

    12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • Prov 22:22
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    22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

  • Jas 5:1-2
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    1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

    2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

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    3 But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

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    7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

    8 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.

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    3 A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

  • Ps 14:6
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    6 You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

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    14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

    15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • Jas 5:6
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    6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Prov 14:20-21
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    20 The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.

    21 He who has no respect for his neighbour is a sinner, but he who has pity for the poor is happy.

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    23 The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer.

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    10 Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

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    24 But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.

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    4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

  • Jas 1:9-10
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    9 But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

    10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

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    6 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

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    4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

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    5 Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

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    27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

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    20 And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, Happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours.

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    28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

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    7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

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    2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

  • Job 22:6
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    6 For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

  • Eccl 5:8
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    8 It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

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    3 Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.