James 5:3

World English Bible (2000)

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
  • Gen 31:48 : 48 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed
  • Gen 31:52 : 52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
  • Gen 49:1 : 1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
  • Deut 32:33-34 : 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps. 34 "Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."
  • Job 14:16-17 : 16 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin? 17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
  • Job 16:8 : 8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
  • Isa 2:2 : 2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who 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 will happen that the mountain of Yahweh's temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.
  • Acts 2:17 : 17 'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

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  • Jas 5:1-2
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    1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

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

  • Jas 5:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

    5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

  • Matt 6:19-21
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    77%

    19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

    20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;

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

  • Ezek 7:19
    76%

    19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Luke 12:33-34
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    74%

    33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

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

  • Prov 5:10-11
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    73%

    10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

    11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • Joel 3:5
    72%

    5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

  • Zeph 1:18
    72%

    18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

  • Job 22:24
    71%

    24 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    70%

    20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

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

  • 2 Pet 2:3
    70%

    3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

  • Isa 1:22
    70%

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

  • Rom 2:5
    70%

    5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

  • 2 Pet 3:10
    69%

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

  • Mal 3:9
    69%

    9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

  • Eccl 5:13
    69%

    13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    69%

    9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

  • Ezek 24:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its brass may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed.

    12 She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.

  • 1 Pet 1:7
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    7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

  • Nah 3:15
    68%

    15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    68%

    17 Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

    18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

  • Matt 10:9
    68%

    9 Don't take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts.

  • Jer 51:13
    68%

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

  • Rev 18:14
    68%

    14 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.

  • Jer 6:30
    68%

    30 Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them."

  • Isa 30:22
    68%

    22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"

  • Ezek 22:22
    68%

    22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you will be melted in its midst; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.

  • Job 27:16-17
    2 verses
    67%

    16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

    17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

  • 1 Pet 1:18
    67%

    18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

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

    12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

    13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

  • Prov 6:11
    67%

    11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

  • Prov 24:34
    67%

    34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Mal 4:1
    67%

    1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Eccl 5:10
    67%

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

  • Ezek 22:12
    67%

    12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Deut 32:34
    67%

    34 "Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

  • Jer 5:25
    67%

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