James 5:2

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Youre riches is corrupte, youre garmetes are motheaten.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Se that ye gather you not treasure vpon the earth, where rust and mothes corrupte, and where theues breake through and steale. 20 But gather you treasure together in heauen, where nether rust nor mothes corrupte, and where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 where as I (notwithstondinge) must consume like as a foule carion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.
  • Isa 50:9 : 9 Beholde, the LORDE God stondeth by me, what is he that can condempne me? lo, they shalbe all like as an olde cloth, which ye mothes shal eate vp.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 for wormes & mothes shal eat the vp like clothe & woll. But my rightuousnesse shal endure for euer, & my sauynge health from generacion to generacion.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 The disceatfull maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no yonge: He commeth by riches, but not rightuously. In the myddest off his life must he leaue them behinde him, and at the last be founde a very foole.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 Therfore will I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, & to the house of Iuda as a caterpiller.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that ye haue, and geue almesse. Make you bagges, which waxe not olde: euen a treasure that neuer fayleth in heauen, where no thefe commeth, and no moth corruppeth:
  • Jas 2:2 : 2 Yf ther come in to yor copany a ma wt a golde rynge and in goodly aparell, & ther come in also a poore man in vyle raymet,
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 to an vncorruptible and vndefyled inheritaunce, which neuer shal fade awaye, but is reserued in heauen for you
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou punyshest man for synne, thou chastenest him: so that his beutie consumeth awaye, like as it were a mothe. O how vayne are all men?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 5:3-5
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    86%

    3 Youre golde & yor siluer are cancred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you, & shal eate youre flesshe, as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure togedder in yor last dayes:

    4 Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth.

    5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth and in wantannes. Ye haue norysshed youre hertes, as in a daye of slaughter.

  • Jas 5:1
    85%

    1 Goo to now ye riche men. Wepe, and howle on yor wretchednes that shal come vpon you.

  • Matt 6:19-20
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    19 Se that ye gather you not treasure vpon the earth, where rust and mothes corrupte, and where theues breake through and steale.

    20 But gather you treasure together in heauen, where nether rust nor mothes corrupte, and where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale.

  • Luke 12:33
    74%

    33 Sell that ye haue, and geue almesse. Make you bagges, which waxe not olde: euen a treasure that neuer fayleth in heauen, where no thefe commeth, and no moth corruppeth:

  • Job 13:28
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    28 where as I (notwithstondinge) must consume like as a foule carion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    17 because thou saist thou art riche and incresyd with goodes and hast nede of nothinge, and knowest not how thou art wretched & miserable, poore, blynde, and nakyd.

    18 I counsell the to bye of me golde tryed in the fyre, that thou mayste be riche: and whyte rayment, that thou mayste be clothed, that thy fylthy nakednes do not apere: anoynt thine eyes with eye salue, yt thou mayste se.

  • Prov 5:11
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    11 Yee that thou mourne not at the last (when thou hast spent thy body and goodes)

  • Jas 2:6
    72%

    6 But ye haue despised the poore. Are not the rych they which oppresse you: & they which drawe you before iudges?

  • Luke 6:24
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    24 But wo vnto you riche, for ye haue youre cosolacion allready.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    13 Yet is there a sore plage, which I haue sene vnder the Sonne (namely) riches kepte to the hurte of him yt hath them in possession.

    14 For oft times they perishe with his greate misery and trouble: and yf he haue a childe, it getteth nothinge.

  • Jas 2:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 Yf ther come in to yor copany a ma wt a golde rynge and in goodly aparell, & ther come in also a poore man in vyle raymet,

    3 & ye haue a respecte to him yt weareth the gaye clothinge & saye vnto hi: Sit thou here i a good place, & saye vnto ye poore, stonde thou there or sit here vnder my fote stole:

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    72%

    9 For they that wylbe riche, fall in to the teptacion and snare, and in to many folisshe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10 and the rich, in yt he is made lowe. For eue as the flor of ye grasse shal he vanyshe awaye.

    11 The Sonne ryseth wt heat and the grasse wydereth, & his floure falleth awaye, and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: euen so shal the ryche man perisshe with his abundaunce.

  • Rev 18:14-17
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    71%

    14 And the apples that thy soule lusted after, are departed from the. And all thinges which were deyntie, and had in pryce, are departed from the, and thou shalt fynde them no more.

    15 The marchauntes of these thinges which were wexed ryche by her, shall stonde afarre of for feare of the punysshment of her, wepynge and waylinge,

    16 and sayenge: alas alas, that greate cite, that was clothed in sylke, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with golde, and precious stone, and pearles:

    17 for at one houre so greate ryches is come to naught. And euery shippe gouerner, and all they that occupie shippes, and shippmen which worke in the see, stode a farre of,

  • Isa 1:22
    71%

    22 Thy Siluer is turned to drosse, and thy wyne myxte wt water.

  • Prov 10:15
    71%

    15 The rich mas goodes are his stroge holde, but pouerte oppresseth the poore.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11 For so moch the as ye oppresse ye poore, and robbe him of his best sustenaunce: therfore, where as ye haue buylded houses off square stone, ye shall not dwell in them. Maruelos pleasaunt vynyardes shall ye plante, but the wyne of the shal ye not drynke: and why?

    12 as for the multitude of youre wickednesses and youre stoute synnes, I knowe them right well. Enemies are ye off the rightuous, ye take rewardes, ye oppresse the poore in iudgment.

  • 2 Pet 2:3
    71%

    3 and thorow cuvetousnes shal they with fayned wordes make marchaundise of you, vpo who the iudgment is not necliget in tarienge of olde, and their damnacion slepeth not.

  • Ezek 7:19
    71%

    19 their syluer shall lye in the stretes, and their golde shalbe despised: Yee their syluer and golde maye not delyuer them, in the daye of the fearfull wrath of the LORDE. They shall not satisfie their hongrie soules, nether fyll their emptie belies therwith: For it is become their owne decaye thorow their wickednesse:

  • Job 22:5-6
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    5 Cometh not this for ye greate wickednesse, & for thine vngracious dedes which are innumerable?

    6 Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge:

  • Prov 6:11
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    11 so shal pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by the waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

  • Hag 1:6
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    6 ye sowe moch, but ye bringe litle in: Ye eate, but ye haue not ynough: ye drinke, but ye are not fylled: ye decke youre selues, but ye are not warme: & he yt earneth eny wage, putteth it in a broken purse.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34 so shall pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by ye waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21 Thus goeth it with him yt gathereth treasure for himself, and is not riche in God.

  • Nah 3:16
    70%

    16 Thy marchauntes haue bene mo then the starres of heaue: but now shal they sprede abrode as the locustes, and fle their waye:

  • Prov 11:4
    69%

    4 Riches helpe not in the daye of vengeaunce, but rightuousnesse delyuereth fro death.

  • Prov 23:5
    69%

    5 Why wilt thou set thine eye vpon ye thinge, which sodenly vanisheth awaye? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight like an Aegle in to ye ayre.

  • Job 27:18
    69%

    18 His house shal endure as the moth, & as a bothe that the watch man maketh.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7 Some men are riche, though they haue nothinge: agayne, some me are poore hauynge greate riches.

  • Joel 3:5
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    5 for ye haue take awaye my syluer & golde, my fayre & goodly Iewels, & brought them in to youre gods houses.

  • 1 Tim 6:17
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    17 Charge the which are riche in this worlde, that they be not proude, ner trust in the vncertayne riches, but in the lyuynge God (which geueth vs abundauntly all thinges to enioye them:)

  • Joel 1:17
    69%

    17 The sede shal perish in the grounde, the garners shall lye waist, the floores shalbe broken downe, for the corne shalbe destroied.

  • Prov 28:22
    69%

    22 He that will be rich all to soone, hath an euell eye, and considereth not, that pouerte shall come vpon him.

  • Job 7:5
    69%

    5 My flesh is clothed with wormes, fylthinesse and dust: my skynne is wythered, and crompled together:

  • Job 4:19
    68%

    19 How moch more the shal they (that dwell in houses of claye, whose foundacion is but earth) be moth eaten?

  • Prov 1:19
    68%

    19 These are the wayes of all soch as be couetous, that one wolde rauysh anothers life.

  • Jas 4:13
    68%

    13 Go to now ye that saye: to daye & to morow let vs go into soche a citie and continue there a yeare, and bye and sell, and wynne:

  • Luke 5:36
    68%

    36 And he sayde vnto them a symilitude: No man putteth a pece of new cloth in to an olde garment: for els he renteth the new, and the pece of the new agreeth not with the olde.