James 2:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

James 2:6 —

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Proverbs 17:5
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 14:31
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
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.
Psalms 14:6
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Ecclesiastes 9:15-16
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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Commentary

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 b…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. The world’s judgment of the poor contrasted with God’s. ye--Christians, from whom better things might have been expected; there is no marvel that men of the world do so. despised--literally, “dishonored.” To dishonor the poor is to dishonor those whom God honors, and so to invert the order of God [Calvin]. rich--as a class. oppress--literally, “abuse their power against” you. draw you--Translat…