James 5:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Your gold and silver are corroded; and their corrosion shall be a witness against you, and shall consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure for the last days.

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  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain. 8 Be also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is near.
  • Gen 31:48 : 48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and you this day. Therefore its name was called Galeed;
  • Gen 31:52 : 52 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
  • Gen 49:1 : 1 And Jacob called to his sons and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the last days.
  • Deut 32:33-34 : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us: it shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.
  • Job 14:16-17 : 16 For now You number my steps; do You not watch over my sin? 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You sew up my iniquity.
  • Job 16:8 : 8 You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
  • Isa 2:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'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 during the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall distress them.
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.
  • Mic 4:1 : 1 But in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow to it.
  • Acts 2:17 : 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all people; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams:
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 The ten horns which you saw on the beast will hate the prostitute, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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    1Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you.

    2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

  • Jas 5:4-5
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    4Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

    5You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

  • Matt 6:19-21
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    19Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

    20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

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

  • Ezek 7:19
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    19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Luke 12:33-34
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    33Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags that do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches, nor moth destroys.

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

  • Prov 5:10-11
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    10Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

    11And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • Joel 3:5
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    5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my precious pleasant things.

  • Zeph 1:18
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    18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy: for He will make a speedy end of all those that dwell in the land.

  • Job 22:24
    71%

    24Then you shall lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    20But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?

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

  • 2 Pet 2:3
    70%

    3And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  • 2 Pet 3:10
    69%

    10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

  • Mal 3:9
    69%

    9You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.

  • Eccl 5:13
    69%

    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Ezek 24:11-12
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    11Then set it empty on its coals, that its bronze may be hot and may burn, and that its filthiness may be melted in it, that its scum may be consumed.

    12She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum did not go out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

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    7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

  • Nah 3:15
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    15There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    17Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

    18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see.

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    9Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor copper in your belts,

  • Jer 51:13
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    13You who dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your covetousness.

  • Rev 18:14
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    14And the fruits that your soul longed for have departed from you, and all things which were luxurious and splendid have departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all.

  • Jer 6:30
    68%

    30Rejected silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.

  • Ezek 22:22
    68%

    22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured out My fury upon you.

  • Job 27:16-17
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    67%

    16Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares clothing as the clay;

    17He may prepare it, but the just shall wear it, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

  • 1 Pet 1:18
    67%

    18Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,

  • 1 Cor 3:12-13
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    67%

    12Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw;

    13Each one's work will become clear: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Mal 4:1
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    1For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Eccl 5:10
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    10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with increase; this also is vanity.

  • Ezek 22:12
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    12In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.

  • Deut 32:34
    67%

    34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.