James 5:1 Cross References - Etheridge

¹ O rich men, howl and weep for the miseries which are coming upon you.

²³ But Jeshu said to his disciples, Amen I say unto you, that it is difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. ²⁴ Again I say to you, that it is easier for a camel to enter through the aperture of a needle, than the rich to enter into the kingdom of Aloha.

²⁴ But woe to you (who are) rich, because you have received your consolation. ²⁵ Woe to you (who are) full, for you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall weep and lament.

¹⁶ And he spake a parable to them: The ground of a certain rich man produced him much provisions. ¹⁷ And he thought within himself, and said, What shall I do? for I have not where to collect my provisions. ¹⁸ And he said, This will I do: I will destroy my house of stores, and will build and enlarge it; and there will I collect all my provender and my good things: ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, My soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years: be at ease, eat, drink, and be merry. ²⁰ But Aloha said to him, Reasonless (man)! [Chasir reyona, wanting reason.] this night thy soul they shall require of thee; and then, (the things) which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? ²¹ So is he who layeth up to himself treasures, and towards Aloha is not rich.

¹⁹ NOW there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in byssos* and purple, and every day feasted gaily.** [* Butso, Hebrew, buts; (2Ch 5:12); an Egyptian linen, extremely fine, soft, and white. ** Gayóith.] ²⁰ And there was a certain poor man, whose name was Loózar; and he lay at the gate of him who was rich, bruised with wounds, ²¹ and desired to fill his belly with the crumbs which fell from the table of that rich. And also the dogs came and licked his wounds. ²² Now that poor man died, and angels conducted him to the bosom of Abraham: but that rich man also died, and was buried. ²³ And, tormented in shiul, he lifted up his eyes afar, and seeth Abraham, and Loózar in his bosom. ²⁴ And he cried with a high voice, and said, My father Abraham, have compassion upon me, and send Loózar, that he may dip the top of his finger in waters, and moisten my tongue; for, behold, I am tormented in this flame. ²⁵ Abraham said to him, My son, remember that thou didst receive thy goods in thy life, and Loózar his evils, and now, behold, he reposeth here, and thou art tormented.

²⁸ And Jeshu turned to them, and said, Daughters of Urishlem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep, and for your children. ²⁹ For, behold, coming are the days in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs which have not borne, and the breasts that have not suckled.

⁹ But they who will be rich fall into temptations and snares, and many lusts which befool and injure, and which plunge men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the root of all evil is the love of money; and there are who have coveted it, and from the faith have erred, and have made themselves enter into many sorrows.

¹¹ For the sun ariseth in his heat, and drieth the herb, and the flower of it falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth; so also the rich withereth in his reverses.

⁶ But you have despised the poor. Behold, are not the rich uprisen against you? and do they not drag you to the house of judgment?

⁹ Be humbled and sorrowful, and let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into anxiety.

¹³ But what shall we say of them who say, To-day or tomorrow we will go to this city, or that, and work there one year, and negotiate, and make gain?

¹⁵ and the kings of the earth and great ones, and the chiefs of thousands, and the rich and the mighty ones, and every servant, and every freeman, hid them in the caverns, and in the rocks of the mountains, ¹⁶ saying to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. ¹⁷ For the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?