James 5:1

James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

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Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Job 20:23
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

Job 31:24
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Proverbs 10:22
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Habakkuk 2:6
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

Habakkuk 2:7
Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Luke 12:17
He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

Luke 12:18
He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

Luke 16:25
“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.

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Psalms 52:7
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Isaiah 53:9
They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Habakkuk 2:5
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.

Luke 12:16
He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

Luke 16:9
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Luke 18:24
Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,

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Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Amos 4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”

Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

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Isaiah 24:8
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

Isaiah 24:9
They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

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Jeremiah 9:17
Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.

Jeremiah 9:18
Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Jeremiah 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”

James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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Ezekiel 16:50
They were arrogant and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.

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Amos 8:3
The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

Zechariah 11:3
A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed—a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

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Matthew 24:12
Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

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Luke 13:28
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

Acts 20:37
They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

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James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

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James 4:2
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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James 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

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Isaiah 23:6
Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

Isaiah 52:5
“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

Jeremiah 49:3
“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourself in sackcloth. Lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

Jeremiah 51:8
Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.

Revelation 18:10
standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’

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