James 5:3 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
James 5:3 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
James 5:3 in 6 Bible Translations
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James 5:3 WEB — 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.”
James 5:3 — World English Bible
James 5:3 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. ”
James 5:3 — American Standard Version
James 5:3 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“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!”
James 5:3 — Young's Literal Translation
James 5:3 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“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. ”
James 5:3 — Darby Translation
James 5:3 GEN — 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.”
James 5:3 — Geneva Bible
James 5:3 in Context — James 5
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 the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
What Does James 5:3 Mean?
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