James 2:6
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
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Study Note
James's accusation — 'but you have dishonored the poor man. Are it not the rich who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?' — applies the command against partiality (2:1-4) with economic concreteness that makes the social ethics of the letter inescapably practical. The irony is biting: the community honors those who oppress them and dishonors those who share their social vulnerability, inverting both wisdom (the poor are closer to God) and self-interest. The question about the rich dragging believers into court reflects the socioeconomic realities of first-century Diaspora Jewish communities where economic vulnerability to wealthy patrons was acute. The verse grounds the letter's treatment of economic justice not in abstract principle but in the observable social behavior of the community addressed, making the critique concrete and personal.
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But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;
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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And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did …
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against …
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded …
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes …
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself …
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I …
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.