James 5:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth, where the mothe & canker corrupt, and where theeues digge through and steale. 20 But lay vp treasures for your selues in heauen, where neither the mothe nor canker corrupteth, & where theeues neither digge through, nor steale.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
  • Isa 50:9 : 9 Beholde, the Lord God will helpe me: who is he that can condemne me? loe, they shall waxe olde as a garment: the mothe shall eate them vp.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For the mothe shall eate them vp like a garment, & the worme shall eate them like wool: but my righteousnesse shalbe for euer, and my saluation from generation to generation.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partryche gathereth the yong, which she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall bee a foole.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iudah as a rottennesse.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that ye haue, and giue almes: make you bagges, which waxe not old, a treasure that can neuer faile in heauen, where no theefe commeth, neither mothe corrupteth.
  • Jas 2:2 : 2 For if there come into your copany a man with a golde ring, and in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile raiment,
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 To an inheritance immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 5:3-5
    3 verses
    86%

    3 Your gold and siluer is cankred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh, as it were fire. Ye haue heaped vp treasure for the last dayes.

    4 Behold, the hire of ye labourers, which haue reaped your fieldes (which is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth, and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of hostes.

    5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and in wantonnes. Ye haue nourished your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.

  • Jas 5:1
    85%

    1 Go to nowe, ye rich men: weepe, and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you.

  • Matt 6:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19 Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth, where the mothe & canker corrupt, and where theeues digge through and steale.

    20 But lay vp treasures for your selues in heauen, where neither the mothe nor canker corrupteth, & where theeues neither digge through, nor steale.

  • Luke 12:33
    74%

    33 Sell that ye haue, and giue almes: make you bagges, which waxe not old, a treasure that can neuer faile in heauen, where no theefe commeth, neither mothe corrupteth.

  • Job 13:28
    74%

    28 Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.

  • Rev 3:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 For thou saiest, I am rich and increased with goods, and haue neede of nothing, and knowest not howe thou art wretched and miserable, and poore, and blinde, and naked.

    18 I counsell thee to bye of me gold tried by the fire, that thou maiest bee made rich: and white raiment, that thou maiest be clothed, and that thy filthie nakednesse doe not appeare: and anoynt thine eyes with eye salue, that thou maiest see.

  • Prov 5:11
    73%

    11 And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

  • Jas 2:6
    72%

    6 But ye haue despised the poore. Doe not the riche oppresse you by tyrannie, and doe not they drawe you before the iudgement seates?

  • Luke 6:24
    72%

    24 But wo be to you that are rich: for ye haue receiued your consolation.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 (5:12) There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.

    14 (5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.

  • Jas 2:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 For if there come into your copany a man with a golde ring, and in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile raiment,

    3 And ye haue a respect to him that weareth the gaie clothing; and say vnto him, Sit thou here in a goodly place, and say vnto the poore, Stand thou there, or sit here vnder my footestoole,

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    72%

    9 For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.

    11 For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.

  • Rev 18:14-17
    4 verses
    71%

    14 (And the apples that thy soule lusted after, are departed from thee, and all things which were fatte and excellent, are departed from thee, and thou shalt finde them no more)

    15 The marchants of these thinges which were waxed riche, shall stand a farre off from her, for feare of her torment, weeping and wayling,

    16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great citie, that was clothed in fine linnen and purple, and skarlet, and gilded with gold, and precious stones, and pearles.

    17 For in one houre so great riches are come to desolation; euery shipmaster, and all the people that occupie shippes, and shipmen, and whosoeuer traffike on the sea, shall stand a farre off,

  • Isa 1:22
    71%

    22 Thy siluer is become drosse: thy wine is mixt with water.

  • Prov 10:15
    71%

    15 The riche mans goodes are his strong citie: but the feare of the needie is their pouertie.

  • Amos 5:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shal not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shal not drinke wine of them.

    12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, & they oppresse the poore in ye gate.

  • 2 Pet 2:3
    71%

    3 And through couetousnes shall they with fained words make marchandise of you, whose condemnation long since resteth not, and their destruction slumbreth not.

  • Ezek 7:19
    71%

    19 They shall cast their siluer in the streetes, and their golde shalbe cast farre off: their siluer and their gold can not deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfie their soules, neither fill their bowels: for this ruine is for their iniquitie.

  • Job 22:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?

    6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

  • Prov 6:11
    70%

    11 Therefore thy pouertie commeth as one that trauaileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6 Ye haue sowen much, and bring in litle: ye eate, but ye haue not ynough: ye drinke, but ye are not filled: ye clothe you, but ye be not warme: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bagge.

  • Prov 24:34
    70%

    34 So thy pouertie commeth as one that traueileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.

  • Luke 12:21
    70%

    21 So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe, and is not riche in God.

  • Nah 3:16
    70%

    16 Thou hast multiplied thy marchantes aboue the starres of heauen: the locust spoileth and flyeth away.

  • Prov 11:4
    69%

    4 Riches auaile not in the day of wrath: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.

  • Prov 23:5
    69%

    5 Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? For riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.

  • Job 27:18
    69%

    18 He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.

  • Prov 13:7
    69%

    7 There is that maketh himselfe riche, and hath nothing, and that maketh himselfe poore, hauing great riches.

  • Joel 3:5
    69%

    5 For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.

  • 1 Tim 6:17
    69%

    17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, & that they trust not in vncertaine riches, but in the liuing God, (which giueth vs aboundatly, all things to enioy)

  • Joel 1:17
    69%

    17 The seede is rotten vnder their cloddes: the garners are destroyed: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.

  • Prov 28:22
    69%

    22 A man with a wicked eye hasteth to riches, and knoweth not, that pouertie shall come vpon him.

  • Job 7:5
    69%

    5 My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.

  • Job 4:19
    68%

    19 Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?

  • Prov 1:19
    68%

    19 Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.

  • Jas 4:13
    68%

    13 Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,

  • Luke 5:36
    68%

    36 Againe he spake also vnto them a parable, No man putteth a piece of a newe garment into an olde vesture: for then the newe renteth it, and the piece taken out of the newe, agreeth not with the olde.