James 5:4-6

For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the LORD of Heaven's Armies. You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every desire. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter. You have condemned and killed innocent people, who do not resist you.

 

For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. the cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

Leviticus 19:13  "Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. Do not make your hired workers wait until the next day to receive their pay."

Jeremiah 22:13  And the LORD says, "What sorrow awaits Jehoiakim, who builds his palace with forced labor. He builds injustice into its walls, for he makes his neighbors work for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor." (see verses 13-23)

Malachi 3:5  "At that time I will put you on trial. I am eager to witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD of Heaven's Armies. (see verses 1-5)

Job 24:10  "The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving." (see all chapter 24)

Deuteronomy 24:14-15  "Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns. You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. If you don't, they might cry out to the LORD against you, and it would be counted against you as sin."

 

You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every desire. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter. 

Luke 16:19  Jesus said, "There was a certain man who was splendidly clothed in purple and fine linen and who lived each day in luxury." (see verses 19-31)

Jeremiah 12:3  But as for me, LORD, you know my heart. You see me and test my thoughts. Drag these people away like sheep to be butchered! Set them aside to be slaughtered! (see verses 1-4)

Jeremiah 25:34  Weep and moan, you evil shepherds! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock! The time of your slaughter has arrived; you will fall and shatter like a fragile vase. (see verses 15-38)

 

You have condemned and killed innocent people, who do not resist you. 

James 4:2  You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so  you fight and wage war to take it away from them. (see verses 1-10)

Acts 3:13-14  "For it is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--the God of all our ancestors--who has brought glory to his servant Jesus by doing this. This is the same Jesus whom you handed over and rejected before Pilate, despite Pilate's decision to release him. You rejected this holy, righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murderer."

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