James 5:2
Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten:
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- Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Hoorde not vp for your selues, treasures vpon earth, where the moth and rust doth corrupt, and where theeues breake through, and steale. 20 But laye vp for you, treasures in heauen, where neyther moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where theeues do not breake through, nor steale.
- Job 13:28 : 28 And I as a rotten thing do consume away, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- Isa 50:9 : 9 Beholde the Lorde God wyll helpe me, what is he the that can condempne me? lo, they all shall waxe olde lyke a cloth, the moth shall eate them vp.
- Isa 51:8 : 8 For wormes and mothes shall eate them vp lyke cloth and wooll: but my ryghteousnesse shall endure for euer, and my sauyng health from generation to generation.
- Jer 17:11 : 11 The partrich maketh a nest of egges, which she layed not: he commeth by riches, but not righteously, in the middest of his life must he leane them behynde hym, & at the last be founde a very foole.
- Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore wyll I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iuda as a caterpiller.
- Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that ye haue, and geue almes: and prepare you bagges whiche waxe not olde, euen a treasure that fayleth not in heauen, where no thiefe cometh, neither moth corrupteth.
- Jas 2:2 : 2 For yf there come into your companie a man wearing a golde ryng, clothed in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile rayment:
- 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 To an inheritaunce immortall, and vndefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserued in heauen for you,
- Ps 39:11 : 11 Thou doest chasten man, rebukyng him for sinne: thou as a moth doest consume his excellencie, for in very deede euery man is but vanitie. Selah.
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- Jas 5:3-53 verses86%
3 Your golde and siluer is cankred, and the rust of them shalbe a witnesse agaynst you, and shall eate your fleshe as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure together in your last dayes.
4 Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth.
5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and ben wanton: Ye haue nourisshed your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.
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1 Go to nowe ye riche men, weepe and howle on your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you.
- Matt 6:19-202 verses76%
19 Hoorde not vp for your selues, treasures vpon earth, where the moth and rust doth corrupt, and where theeues breake through, and steale.
20 But laye vp for you, treasures in heauen, where neyther moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where theeues do not breake through, nor steale.
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33 Sell that ye haue, and geue almes: and prepare you bagges whiche waxe not olde, euen a treasure that fayleth not in heauen, where no thiefe cometh, neither moth corrupteth.
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28 And I as a rotten thing do consume away, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- Rev 3:17-182 verses74%
17 Because thou sayest, I am riche and increased with goodes, and haue neede of nothyng: & knowest not howe that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poore, and blynde, and naked.
18 I counsel thee to bye of me gold tryed in the fyre, that thou mayest be riche, and whyte rayment, that thou mayest be clothed, that thy fylthie nakednesse do not appeare, and annoynt thyne eyes with eye salue, that thou mayest see.
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11 Yea, that thou mourne not at the last, when thou hast spent thy bodye and lustie youth, and then say:
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6 But ye haue despised the poore. Do not riche men oppresse you by tirannie, and drawe you before the iudgementes seates?
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24 But wo vnto you that are riche: for ye haue your consolation.
- Eccl 5:13-142 verses72%
13 Yet is there a sore plague which I haue seene vnder the sunne namely riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession:
14 For oft tymes they perishe with his great miserie and trouble: and yf he haue a chylde, it getteth nothyng.
- Jas 2:2-32 verses72%
2 For yf there come into your companie a man wearing a golde ryng, clothed in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile rayment:
3 And ye haue a respect to hym that weareth the gay clothyng, and say vnto hym, sitte thou here in a good place: & say vnto the poore, stande thou there, or sitte here vnder my footestoole:
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9 For they that wyll be riche, fall into temptations and snares, and into many folishe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.
- Jas 1:10-112 verses72%
10 Agayne, the riche, in that he is made lowe: Because as the flowre of the grasse he shall passe away.
11 For the sunne hath rysen with heate, and the grasse hath withered, and his flowre hath fallen away, & the beautie of the fashion of it hath perished: So also shall the ryche man fade away in his wayes.
- Rev 18:14-174 verses71%
14 And the apples that thy soule lusted after are departed from thee, and all thynges which were daintie and had in price are departed from thee, and thou shalt fynde them no more.
15 The marchauntes of these thynges whiche were waxed ryche, shall stande a farre of fro her for feare of the punishment of her, wepyng and waylyng,
16 And saying: Alas, alas, that great citie, that was clothed in raynes, and purple, and skarlet, and decked with golde and precious stones, and pearles:
17 For at one houre so great ryches is come to naught. And euery shippe gouernour, & all they that occupie shippes, and shippemen which worke in the sea, stoode a farre of,
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22 Thy siluer is turned to drosse, and thy wine mixt with water.
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15 The riche mans goodes are his strong holde: but their owne pouertie feareth the poore.
- Amos 5:11-122 verses71%
11 Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and ye take from hym burdens of wheate: ye haue buylt houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: ye haue planted pleasaunt vineyardes, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.
12 For I knowe your manyfolde transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewardes, and they oppresse the poore in the gate.
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3 And through couetousnesse, shall they with fayned wordes make marchaudize of you, whose iudgement is nowe not farre of, and their damnation sleepeth not.
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19 Their siluer shall they cast foorth in the streetes, and their golde shalbe dispised: yea their siluer and golde shall not be able to deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lorde, they shall not satisfie their soules, neither fyll their bellyes therwith, because it was a stumblyng blocke of their iniquitie.
- Job 22:5-62 verses71%
5 Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable?
6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.
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11 So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie like a weaponed man.
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6 Ye haue sowen much, but ye bryng litle in: ye eate, but ye haue not inough: ye drinke, but ye are not filled: ye cloth you, but ye be not warme: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bagge.
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34 So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie lyke a weaponed man.
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21 So is he that gathereth riches to him selfe, and is not ryche towardes God.
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16 Thou hast increased thy marchauntes as the starres of heauen, the locust spoyleth, and fleeth away.
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4 Riches helpe not in the day of vengeaunce: but ryghteousnesse deliuereth from death.
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5 Wylt thou set thyne eye vpon the thing which sodenly vanisheth away? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight lyke an Egle into the ayre.
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18 He buyldeth his house as the moth, & as a booth that the watchman maketh.
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7 Some men make them selues riche though they haue nothyng: agayne, some make them selues poore hauyng great riches.
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5 For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, my pleasaunt & pretious thinges, & haue caryed them into your temples.
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17 Charge them which are riche in this world, that they be not hie minded, nor trust in vncertayne riches: but in ye lyuyng God, which geueth vs aboundauntly all thinges to enioy:
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17 The seede is rotte vnder their cloddes, the garners are destroyed, the barnes are ouerthrowen: for the corne is withered.
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22 He that wyll be riche all to soone, hath an euyll eye: and considereth not that pouertie shall come vpon hym.
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5 My fleshe is clothed with wormes and dust of the earth: my skinne is withered and become horrible.
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19 Howe much more in them that dwel in houses of clay, and whose foundation is but dust, which shall be consumed as it were with a moth?
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19 Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedie of gayne, who taketh away the life of the owner therof.
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13 Go to nowe ye that say, to day and to morowe let vs go into such a citie, and continue there a yere, and bye and sell, and wynne:
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36 He spake also vnto them a similitude. No man putteth a peece of a newe garment, into an olde vesture: For then the newe renteth the olde, and the peece that was taken out of the newe, agreeth not with the olde.