James 5:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Patience in Suffering So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains. 8 You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord’s return is near.
  • Gen 31:48 : 48 Laban said,“This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today.” That is why it was called Galeed.
  • Gen 31:52 : 52 “This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.
  • Gen 49:1 : 1 The Blessing of Jacob Jacob called for his sons and said,“Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.
  • Deut 32:33-34 : 33 Their wine is snakes’ poison, the deadly venom of cobras. 34 “Is this not stored up with me?” says the LORD,“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 Joshua said to all the people,“Look, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard everything the LORD said to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.”
  • Job 14:16-17 : 16 The Present Condition“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin. 17 My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.
  • Job 16:8 : 8 You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
  • Isa 2:2 : 2 In the future the mountain of the LORD’s temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.
  • Mic 4:1 : 1 Better Days Ahead for Jerusalem In the future the LORD’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; it will be more prominent than other hills. People will stream to it.
  • Acts 2:17 : 17 ‘And in the last days it will be,’ God says,‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 The ten horns that you saw, and the beast– these will hate the prostitute and make her desolate and naked. They will consume her flesh and burn her up with fire.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”

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    1Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.

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  • Jas 5:4-5
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    4Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

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

  • Matt 6:19-21
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    19Lasting Treasure“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

    20But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and devouring insect do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.

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

  • Ezek 7:19
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    19They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the LORD’s fury. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.

  • Luke 12:33-34
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    33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out– a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

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

  • Prov 5:10-11
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    10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

    11And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.

  • Joel 3:5
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    5For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

  • Zeph 1:18
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    18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth.”

  • Job 22:24
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    24and throw your gold in the dust– your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines–

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    20But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

    21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”

  • 2 Pet 2:3
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    3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

  • Rom 2:5
    70%

    5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

  • 2 Pet 3:10
    69%

    10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, the heavens will disappear with a horrific noise, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze, and the earth and every deed done on it will be laid bare.

  • Mal 3:9
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    9You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me– this whole nation is guilty.

  • Eccl 5:13
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    13Materialism Thwarts Enjoyment of Life Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

  • Ezek 24:11-12
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    69%

    11Set the empty pot on the coals, until it becomes hot and its copper glows, until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot is consumed.

    12It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!

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    7Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

  • Nah 3:15
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    15There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    17Because you say,“I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,

    18take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!

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    9Do not take gold, silver, or copper in your belts,

  • Jer 51:13
    68%

    13“You who live along the rivers of Babylon, the time of your end has come. You who are rich in plundered treasure, it is time for your lives to be cut off.

  • Rev 18:14
    68%

    14(The ripe fruit you greatly desired has gone from you, and all your luxury and splendor have gone from you– they will never ever be found again!)

  • Jer 6:30
    68%

    30They are regarded as‘rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”

  • Isa 30:22
    68%

    22You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”

  • 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 anger on you.’”

  • Job 27:16-17
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    67%

    16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

    17what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

  • 1 Pet 1:18
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    18You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,

  • 1 Cor 3:12-13
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    12If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

    13each builder’s work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”

  • Mal 4:1
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    1(3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.

  • Eccl 5:10
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    10Covetousness The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile.

  • Ezek 22:12
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    12They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Deut 32:34
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    34“Is this not stored up with me?” says the LORD,“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’