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Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure[a][b] for the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:3 Or will eat your flesh, since you have stored up fire
  2. 5.3 The “treasure” they have laid up is described in the following verses.

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