James 5:3
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Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.

cankered.

2 Timothy 2:17 And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus:

a witness.

Genesis 31:48,52 And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap. . . .

Joshua 24:27 And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

Job 16:8 But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

and shall.

Jeremiah 19:9 And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with 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 lives, shall straiten them.

Micah 3:3 You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest in the beast: These shall hate the harlot and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and shall burn her with fire.

Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the pool of fire.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Ye have.

Deuteronomy 32:33,34 Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable. . . .

Job 14:16,17 Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins. . . .

Romans 2:5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:

the last.

Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.

Isaiah 2:2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

Micah 4:1 Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests.

Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass, in the last days, (saith the Lord), I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Context
Warning to the Rich
2Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. 3Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. 4Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.…
Cross References
James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

James 5:8
Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Lexicon
Your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

gold
χρυσὸς (chrysos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 5557: Perhaps from the base of chraomai; gold; by extension, a golden article, as an ornament or coin.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

silver
ἄργυρος (argyros)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 696: Silver as a metal. From argos; silver.

are corroded.
κατίωται (katiōtai)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2728: To rust; pass: To be rusted, tarnished. From kata and a derivative of ios; to rust down, i.e. Corrode.

Their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

corrosion
ἰὸς (ios)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2447: Poison, rust; an arrow. Perhaps from eimi or hiemi; rust; also venom.

will
ἔσται (estai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

testify
μαρτύριον (martyrion)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3142: Neuter of a presumed derivative of martus; something evidential, i.e. evidence given or, the Decalogue.

against you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

consume
φάγεται (phagetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 5315: A primary verb; to eat.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

flesh
σάρκας (sarkas)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 4561: Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred.

like
ὡς (hōs)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.

fire.
πῦρ (pyr)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 4442: Fire; the heat of the sun, lightning; fig: strife, trials; the eternal fire. A primary word; 'fire'.

You have hoarded treasure
Ἐθησαυρίσατε (Ethēsaurisate)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2343: To store up, treasure up, save, lay up. From thesauros; to amass or reserve.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

[the] last
ἐσχάταις (eschatais)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 2078: Last, at the last, finally, till the end. A superlative probably from echo; farthest, final.

days.
ἡμέραις (hēmerais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.


Additional Translations
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.

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their rust will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have treasured up in the last days.

Your gold and silver is corroded; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.

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.

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.

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.

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have amassed treasure for the last days.

your gold and your silver have become covered with rust, and the rust on them will give evidence against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded up wealth in these last days.

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.

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!
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