James 5:3

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Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

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  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Therefore, be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it until it receives the early and late rains. 8 You too must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.
  • Gen 31:48 : 48 Laban said, 'This heap is a witness between you and me today.' That is why it was called Galeed.
  • Gen 31:52 : 52 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to harm you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to harm me.
  • Gen 49:1 : 1 Then Jacob called for his sons and said, 'Gather together so that I may tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.'
  • Deut 32:33-34 : 33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. 34 Is it not stored up with Me, sealed in My treasuries?
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people, "See, this stone will serve as a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.
  • Job 14:16-17 : 16 Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin. 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you cover over my iniquity.
  • Job 16:8 : 8 You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
  • Isa 2:2 : 2 In the last days, the mountain of the Lord's house will be firmly established at the top of the mountains, lifted above the hills, and all nations will flow to it.
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because of the siege and distress that their enemies and those who seek their lives will impose on them.
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.
  • Mic 4:1 : 1 In the last days, the mountain of the house of the LORD will be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it.
  • Acts 2:17 : 17 ‘In the last days,’ says God, ‘I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 First of all, you should understand that in the last days, mockers will come, following their own evil desires,
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 The ten horns you saw, and the beast, will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, devour her flesh, and burn her with fire.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.

    2Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

  • Jas 5:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    4Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

    5You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

  • Matt 6:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

    20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moths nor rust destroy, and where thieves do not break in or steal.

    21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

  • Ezek 7:19
    76%

    19They will throw their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has caused their stumbling into sin.

  • Luke 12:33-34
    2 verses
    74%

    33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make for yourselves purses that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

    34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

  • Prov 5:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Lest strangers feast on your strength, and your hard-earned wealth end up in the house of a foreigner.

    11At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.

  • Joel 3:5
    72%

    5For you took my silver and my gold and carried my precious treasures into your temples.

  • Zeph 1:18
    72%

    18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to rescue them on the day of the Lord's wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy, for He will bring a sudden and complete destruction on all the inhabitants of the earth.

  • Job 22:24
    71%

    24and assign your gold to the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,

  • Luke 12:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20But God said to him, 'Fool! This very night your soul will be required of you, and the things you have prepared—who will they belong to?'

    21So it is with one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

  • 2 Pet 2:3
    70%

    3In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

  • Isa 1:22
    70%

    22Your silver has become dross, your wine is diluted with water.

  • Rom 2:5
    70%

    5But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

  • 2 Pet 3:10
    69%

    10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

  • Mal 3:9
    69%

    9You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.

  • Eccl 5:13
    69%

    13Or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children, there is nothing left for them to inherit.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    69%

    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

  • Ezek 24:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11Set the pot on its coals empty, so that it may become hot and its bronze burned. Its filthiness will melt away; its corrosion will be consumed.

    12She has wearied herself with toil, and her heavy corrosion has not gone from her; her rust will be burned away in the fire.

  • 1 Pet 1:7
    68%

    7so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold that perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

  • Nah 3:15
    68%

    15There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

  • Rev 3:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17Because you say, 'I am rich, I have become wealthy, and I don’t need anything,' yet you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

    18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you may become rich; white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed; and ointment to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

  • Matt 10:9
    68%

    9Do not acquire gold, silver, or copper to put in your belts.

  • Jer 51:13
    68%

    13You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

  • Rev 18:14
    68%

    14The fruit your soul longed for has departed from you. All your luxurious and splendid things are lost to you, never to be found again.

  • Jer 6:30
    68%

    30They are called rejected silver, for the LORD has rejected them.

  • Isa 30:22
    68%

    22Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, 'Away with you!'

  • Ezek 22:22
    68%

    22As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my wrath upon you.

  • Job 27:16-17
    2 verses
    67%

    16Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothes like clay,

    17he may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide his silver.

  • 1 Pet 1:18
    67%

    18For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life, inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

  • 1 Cor 3:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

    13each one’s work will become evident, for the Day will make it clear because it will be revealed by fire. The fire will test the quality of each one’s work.

  • Prov 6:11
    67%

    11and poverty will come upon you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

  • Prov 24:34
    67%

    34and poverty will come upon you like a robber and need like an armed man.

  • Eccl 5:10
    67%

    10As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?

  • Ezek 22:12
    67%

    12In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Deut 32:34
    67%

    34Is it not stored up with Me, sealed in My treasuries?

  • Jer 5:25
    67%

    25Your iniquities have diverted these blessings, and your sins have withheld good things from you.