James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and this corrosion will be evidence against you, eating away your flesh like fire. You hoarded up your wealth in these last days.
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In Context
2Your wealth is ruined, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.
Cross References
Genesis 31:48Laban announced, “This pile of stone serves as a witness between me and you.” This is why it was called Galeed.
Genesis 49:1Jacob called his sons together, and said, “Gather round so I can tell you what's going to happen to you in the future.
Joshua 24:27Joshua said to the people, “Look at this stone. It stands here as a witness against us for it has heard everything the Lord has told us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny what you have promised your God.”
Job 16:8You have made me shrivel up, which is a witness against me; my thin body testifies against me.
Jeremiah 19:9The siege brought by their enemies who want to kill them will be so terrible that I will make them eat each other, even their own sons and daughters.
Micah 4:1In the last days, the mountain where the Lord's Temple stands will be recognized as the highest of all mountains, rising above other hills. Crowds of people from many places will travel to it.
Matthew Henry on James 5:2-12
Warnings to the Rich; Motives to Patience under Affliction. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 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. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and… Read the whole commentary →