James 5:5

Modern English Version

You have lived in pleasure on the earth and have been wayward. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

Cross References

Psalm 17:14

from men by Your hand, O  Lord, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their belly with Your treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes bulge with fatness; they have more than a heart could wish.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry crust with quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 7:14

“I have peace offerings with me; this day I have paid my vows.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Isaiah 22:13

Behold, there is joy and gladness, slaying of oxen and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

Isaiah 3:16

Moreover the Lord says: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,

Isaiah 47:8

Therefore, now hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who dwell carelessly, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children”;

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as today, only more so.”

Jeremiah 12:3

But You, O  Lord, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 25:34

Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in the ashes, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you will fall like a choice vessel.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom. Pride, abundance of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 39:17

As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to every kind of fowl and to every beast of the field: Assemble and come. Gather on every side to My sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those confident on the mount of Samaria, nobles of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.

Luke 16:25

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.

Romans 13:13

Let us behave properly, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in immorality and wickedness, not in strife and envy.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

2 Peter 2:13

They shall receive the wages of unrighteousness. They count it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes who revel in their own deception while they carouse together with you.

Jude 1:12

These are the ones who are stains on your love feasts as they feast with you irreverently and care only for themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

Revelation 18:7

To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her torment and sorrow; for in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and will see no sorrow.’

1 Samuel 25:36

Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was feasting in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

1 Samuel 25:6

And thus you shall say to him who lives in prosperity, ‘Peace be to you and peace to your house, and to all that you have, peace.