James 5:3 “Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify agains…”

James 5:3

Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Your gold and siluer is cankred, and the rust of them shalbe a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh, as it were fire. Ye haue heaped vp treasure for the last dayes.

Darby 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.

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!

Bible in Basic English

Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

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Cross references

“cankered”

2 Timothy 2:17

2 Timothy 2:17 · BSB

and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

“a witness”

Genesis 31:52 Joshua 24:27 Job 16:8 Genesis 31:48

Genesis 31:52 · BSB

This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.

Joshua 24:27 · BSB

And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”

Job 16:8 · BSB

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

Genesis 31:48 · BSB

Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.

“and shall”

Revelation 21:8 Revelation 20:15 Jeremiah 19:9 Micah 3:3 Revelation 17:16

Revelation 21:8 · BSB

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

Revelation 20:15 · BSB

And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Jeremiah 19:9 · BSB

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

Micah 3:3 · BSB

You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

Revelation 17:16 · BSB

And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

“Ye have”

Romans 2:5 Deuteronomy 32:33 Deuteronomy 32:34 Job 14:16 Job 14:17

Romans 2:5 · BSB

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Deuteronomy 32:33 · BSB

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

Deuteronomy 32:34 · BSB

“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

Job 14:16 · BSB

For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

Job 14:17 · BSB

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.

“the last”

Isaiah 2:2 Genesis 49:1 Micah 4:1 2 Peter 3:3 Acts 2:17

Isaiah 2:2 · BSB

In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

Genesis 49:1 · BSB

Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:

Micah 4:1 · BSB

In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.

2 Peter 3:3 · BSB

Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

Acts 2:17 · BSB

‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

Also

James 5:7–8

James 5:7–8 · BSB

Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.

4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Read James 5