James 5:5

New American Bible - revised edition

You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

Cross References

Psalm 17:14

Slay them with your sword; with your hand, Lord, slay them; snatch them from the world in their prime. Their bellies are being filled with your friends; their children are satisfied too, for they share what is left with their young.

Psalm 73:7

Out of such blindness comes sin; evil thoughts flood their hearts.

Proverbs 17:1

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

Proverbs 7:14

“I owed peace offerings, and today I have fulfilled my vows;

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O youth, while you are young and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart, the vision of your eyes; Yet understand regarding all this that God will bring you to judgment.

Isaiah 22:13

But look! instead, there was celebration and joy, slaughtering cattle and butchering sheep, Eating meat and drinking wine: “Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Isaiah 3:16

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with necks outstretched, Ogling and mincing as they go, their anklets tinkling with every step,

Isaiah 47:8

Now hear this, voluptuous one, enthroned securely, Saying in your heart, “I, and no one else! I shall never be a widow, bereft of my children”—

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me bring wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink, And tomorrow will be like today, or even greater.”

Jeremiah 12:3

Lord, you know me, you see me, you have found that my heart is with you. Pick them out like sheep for the butcher, set them apart for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 25:34

Howl, you shepherds, and wail! roll on the ground, leaders of the flock! The time for your slaughter has come; like choice rams you shall fall.

Ezekiel 16:49

Now look at the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were proud, sated with food, complacent in prosperity. They did not give any help to the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 39:17

As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Say to birds of every kind and to every wild beast: “Assemble! Come from all sides for the sacrifice I am making for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel. You shall eat flesh and drink blood!

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are complacent in Zion, secure on the mount of Samaria, Leaders of the first among nations, to whom the people of Israel turn.

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.

Luke 16:25

Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented.

Romans 13:13

let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in rivalry and jealousy.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the one who is self-indulgent is dead while she lives.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2 Peter 2:13

suffering wrong as payment for wrongdoing. Thinking daytime revelry a delight, they are stains and defilements as they revel in their deceits while carousing with you.

Jude 1:12

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.

Revelation 18:7

To the measure of her boasting and wantonness repay her in torment and grief; for she said to herself, ‘I sit enthroned as queen; I am no widow, and I will never know grief.’

1 Samuel 25:36

When Abigail came to Nabal, he was hosting a banquet in his house like that of a king, and Nabal was in a festive mood and very drunk. So she said not a word to him until daybreak the next morning.

1 Samuel 25:6

Say to him, ‘Peace be with you, my brother, and with your family, and with all who belong to you.