James 5:5 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁵ You lived luxuriously upon the earth and you lived riotously, you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ [Here] on earth you have abandoned yourselves to soft (prodigal) living and to [the pleasures of] self-indulgence and self-gratification. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Common English Bible

⁵ You have lived a self-satisfying life on this earth, a life of luxury. You have stuffed your hearts in preparation for the day of slaughter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ You have feasted upon the earth, and you have nourished your hearts with luxuries, unto the day of slaughter.

James 5:5 Cross References

Luke 16:19

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself splendidly every day.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelries and drinking bouts, not in orgies and debaucheries, not in strife and jealousy.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who is living for pleasure is dead while she lives.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, headstrong, having been puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2 Peter 2:13

receiving the wages of unrighteousness, counting as a pleasure to revel in the daytime, [they are] spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you,

Jude 1:12

These are stains in your love feasts, while they feast [with you] without fear, caring for themselves, they are waterless clouds being carried along by winds; late autumn trees unfruitful, twice having died, having been uprooted,

Revelation 18:7

In as many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no means see sorrow.'