Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in James 5:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Proverbs 11:28
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
- 1 Timothy 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
- Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- Luke 12:16
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
- James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it per…
- Jeremiah 9:23
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches…
- Luke 6:24
But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
- Luke 16:19
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
- Matthew 19:23
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
- Micah 6:12
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
- Psalms 73:3
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of …
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How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.