James 2:6
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But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
ὑμεῖς δὲ ἠτιμάσατε τὸν πτωχόν. οὐχ οἱ πλούσιοι καταδυναστεύουσιν ὑμῶν, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἕλκουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς κριτήρια;
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1 Corinthians 11:22 What? 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.
James 5:4 Behold, 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.
James 5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Acts 8:3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
Acts 13:50 But 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.
God’s poor, viz. by your respecting persons.
Either those that were unbelieving Jews or heathen; or such as made a profession of Christianity, but were not cordial friends to it; or, both may be included.
insolently abuse you, and unrighteously, either usurping a power over you which belongs not to them, or abusing the power they have.
especially before unbelieving judges, 1Co 6:1,6: they would colour their oppression with a pretence of law, and therefore drew the poor saints before the judgment-seat.