James 5:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.”
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BSBPD
“Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo James 5:2 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
- Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Isaiah 50:9Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
- Isaiah 51:8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
- Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
- Hosea 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
- Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- James 2:2Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.
- 1 Peter 1:4and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
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