James 2:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
In context
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.
James 2:6 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
- KJV King James Version
- But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
- WEB World English Bible
- But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
- ASV American Standard Version
- But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;
- DBY Darby Translation
- But ye have despised the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and [do not] they drag you before [the] tribunals?
- WBS Webster Bible
- But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment-seats?