James 5:2
Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
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- Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Lasting Treasure“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and devouring insect do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.
- Job 13:28 : 28 So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
- Isa 50:9 : 9 Look, the Sovereign LORD helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.
- Isa 51:8 : 8 For a moth will eat away at them like clothes; a clothes moth will devour them like wool. But the vindication I provide will be permanent; the deliverance I give will last.”
- Jer 17:11 : 11 The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
- Hos 5:12 : 12 The Curse of the Incurable Wound I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.
- Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out– a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- Jas 2:2 : 2 For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,
- 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,
- Ps 39:11 : 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
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- Jas 5:3-53 verses86%
3Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!
4Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
5You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
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1Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.
- Matt 6:19-202 verses76%
19Lasting Treasure“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
20But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and devouring insect do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.
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33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out– a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
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28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
- Rev 3:17-182 verses74%
17Because you say,“I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,
18take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!
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11And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
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6But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?
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24“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your comfort already.
- Eccl 5:13-142 verses72%
13Materialism Thwarts Enjoyment of Life Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.
14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.
- Jas 2:2-32 verses72%
2For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,
3do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say,“You sit here in a good place,” and to the poor person,“You stand over there,” or“Sit on the floor”?
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9Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
- Jas 1:10-112 verses72%
10But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.
11For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.
- Rev 18:14-174 verses71%
14(The ripe fruit you greatly desired has gone from you, and all your luxury and splendor have gone from you– they will never ever be found again!)
15The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
16saying,“Woe, woe, O great city– dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet clothing, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls–
17because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” And every ship’s captain, and all who sail along the coast– seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off
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22Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.
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15The wealth of a rich person is like a fortified city, but the poor are brought to ruin by their poverty.
- Amos 5:11-122 verses71%
11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.
12Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.
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3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.
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19They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the LORD’s fury. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.
- Job 22:5-62 verses71%
5Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?
6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
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11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
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6You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”
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34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”
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21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”
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16Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.
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4Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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5When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
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18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
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7There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.
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5For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.
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17Command those who are rich in this world’s goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.
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17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.
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22The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.
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5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
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19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
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19Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
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13Come now, you who say,“Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
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36He also told them a parable:“No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.