James 5:3
Your gold and silver is corroded; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
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cankered.

2 Timothy 2:17 And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

a witness.

Genesis 31:48,52 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and you this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed...

Joshua 24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us...

Job 16:8 And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

and shall.

Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters...

Micah 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces...

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked...

Revelation 20:15 And whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters...

Ye have.

Deuteronomy 32:33,34 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps...

Job 14:16,17 For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin...

Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation...

the last. See on

Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains...

Micah 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains...

Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh...

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,



Context
Misuse of Riches

1Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come on you. 2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3Your gold and silver is corroded; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.
Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
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.


Douay-Rheims Bible
Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.


Darby Bible Translation
Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days.


King James Bible
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.


Young's Literal Translation
your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!


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