Bible verse
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
James 2:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from James 2.
2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.
3 If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”
4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?
8 If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
10 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
KJV
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
ASV
But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
ERV
But ye have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
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