6But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
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Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
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.
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The apostle is here reproving a very corrupt practice. He shows how much mischief there is in the sin of prosopolepsia — respect of persons , which seemed to be a very growing evil in the churches of Christ even in those early ages, and which, in these after-times, has sadly corrupted and divided Christian nations and societies. Here we have, I. A caution against this sin laid down in general: My…
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