James 5:1-8
James's warning to the exploiting rich of coming misery, fulfilled in Jerusalem's fall and the eschatological judgment.
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5:1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
5:2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
5:3Your 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.
5:4Behold, 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.
5:5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
5:6Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
5:7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
5:8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Fulfillment References
Luke 6:24 Luke 21:20 Revelation 18:9-19
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