Devine Scripture

James 5:3

James chapter 5 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

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

v.3This passage

v.4Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 20:15

    And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

  • Jeremiah 19:9

    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, in the siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.

  • James 5:7

    Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.

  • Genesis 49:1

    And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days.

  • Revelation 17:16

    And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.

  • Deuteronomy 32:33

    Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.