James 5:3

American Standard Version (1901)

Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.

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  • Rom 2:5 : 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
  • Gen 31:48 : 48 And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:
  • Gen 31:52 : 52 This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
  • Gen 49:1 : 1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days.
  • Deut 32:33-34 : 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of Jehovah which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.
  • Job 14:16-17 : 16 But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin? 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.
  • Job 16:8 : 8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
  • Isa 2:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
  • Mic 4:1 : 1 But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow unto it.
  • Acts 2:17 : 17 And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh: And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams:
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

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    1Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

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  • Jas 5:4-5
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    4Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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  • Matt 6:19-21
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    19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:

    20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

    21for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.

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  • Luke 12:33-34
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    33Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.

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  • Prov 5:10-11
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    10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,

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  • Joel 3:5
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    5Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

  • Zeph 1:18
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    18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the land.

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    24And lay thou [thy] treasure in the dust, And [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the brooks;

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    20But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

    21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

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    3And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

  • Rom 2:5
    70%

    5but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  • 2 Pet 3:10
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    10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

  • Mal 3:9
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    9Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.

  • Eccl 5:13
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    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Ezek 24:11-12
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    11Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the brass thereof may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.

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    15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:

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    9Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;

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    13O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

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    14And the fruits which thy soul lusted after are gone from thee, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous are perished from thee, and [men] shall find them no more at all.

  • Jer 6:30
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    30Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

  • Ezek 22:22
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    22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have poured out my wrath upon you.

  • Job 27:16-17
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    67%

    16Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;

    17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

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    18knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

  • 1 Cor 3:12-13
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    12But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;

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    11So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

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    34So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

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    1For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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    10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

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    12In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Deut 32:34
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    34Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

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    25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.