James 5:2

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Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

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  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moths nor rust destroy, and where thieves do not break in or steal.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
  • Isa 50:9 : 9 Behold, the Sovereign LORD helps me. Who will condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will devour them.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth will eat them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, and My salvation through all generations.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay, so is one who gains wealth by unjust means. In the middle of his life, it will desert him, and in the end, he will prove to be a fool.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make for yourselves purses that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
  • Jas 2:2 : 2 Suppose a man with gold rings and dressed in fine clothes enters your assembly, and a poor man in filthy clothes also comes in.
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 Remove Your stroke from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 5:3-5
    3 verses
    86%

    3Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

    4Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

    5You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

  • Jas 5:1
    85%

    1Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.

  • Matt 6:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

    20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moths nor rust destroy, and where thieves do not break in or steal.

  • Luke 12:33
    74%

    33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make for yourselves purses that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

  • Job 13:28
    74%

    28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    74%

    17Because you say, 'I am rich, I have become wealthy, and I don’t need anything,' yet you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

    18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you may become rich; white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed; and ointment to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

  • Prov 5:11
    73%

    11At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.

  • Jas 2:6
    72%

    6But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you and drag you into court?

  • Luke 6:24
    72%

    24But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    72%

    13Or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children, there is nothing left for them to inherit.

    14As everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, so they depart naked as they came. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

  • Jas 2:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Suppose a man with gold rings and dressed in fine clothes enters your assembly, and a poor man in filthy clothes also comes in.

    3If you show special attention to the one wearing fine clothing and say, 'Here is a good seat for you,' but tell the poor man, 'You stand there,' or 'Sit here by my footstool,'

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    72%

    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    72%

    10and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.

    11For the sun rises with its scorching heat, and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich person will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

  • Rev 18:14-17
    4 verses
    71%

    14The fruit your soul longed for has departed from you. All your luxurious and splendid things are lost to you, never to be found again.

    15The merchants who became rich from her will stand far off, out of fear for her torment, weeping and mourning,

    16saying, 'Woe, woe to the great city, dressed in fine linen, purple, and crimson, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls!'

    17For in one hour such great wealth has been destroyed!' Every ship captain, all who travel by ship, sailors, and those who earn their living from the sea stood far off,

  • Isa 1:22
    71%

    22Your silver has become dross, your wine is diluted with water.

  • Prov 10:15
    71%

    15The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    71%

    11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

    12For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: oppressing the righteous, taking bribes, and turning aside the needy at the gate.

  • 2 Pet 2:3
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    3In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

  • Ezek 7:19
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    19They will throw their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has caused their stumbling into sin.

  • Job 22:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Is not your wickedness great and your iniquities without end?

    6For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Prov 6:11
    70%

    11and poverty will come upon you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be filled. You put on clothes but are not warm. The one who earns wages earns them to put into a bag with holes.

  • Prov 24:34
    70%

    34and poverty will come upon you like a robber and need like an armed man.

  • Luke 12:21
    70%

    21So it is with one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

  • Nah 3:16
    70%

    16You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

  • Prov 11:4
    69%

    4Riches do not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Prov 23:5
    69%

    5Will you fix your eyes on wealth only for it to vanish? For it makes itself wings and flies away like an eagle toward the heavens.

  • Job 27:18
    69%

    18He builds his house like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.

  • Prov 13:7
    69%

    7One pretends to be rich yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor yet has great wealth.

  • Joel 3:5
    69%

    5For you took my silver and my gold and carried my precious treasures into your temples.

  • 1 Tim 6:17
    69%

    17Command those who are rich in this present age not to be arrogant or to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.

  • Joel 1:17
    69%

    17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Prov 28:22
    69%

    22A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth and does not consider that poverty will come upon him.

  • Job 7:5
    69%

    5My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.

  • Job 4:19
    68%

    19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

  • Prov 1:19
    68%

    19Such are the ways of everyone who gains unjust profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Jas 4:13
    68%

    13Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.'

  • Luke 5:36
    68%

    36Then He told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it onto an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment will be torn, and the patch from the new will not match the old."