James 5:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;
  • Job 13:28 : 28 Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
  • Isa 50:9 : 9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, And to the house of Judah like rottenness.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
  • Jas 2:2 : 2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

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  • Jas 5:3-5
    3 verses
    86%

    3Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

    4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

    5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

  • Jas 5:1
    85%

    1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

  • Matt 6:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

    20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;

  • Luke 12:33
    74%

    33Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

  • Job 13:28
    74%

    28Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    74%

    17Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

    18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

  • Prov 5:11
    73%

    11You will groan at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • Jas 2:6
    72%

    6But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

  • Luke 6:24
    72%

    24"But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

    14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

  • Jas 2:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

    3and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    72%

    9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Rev 18:14-17
    4 verses
    71%

    14The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.

    15The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;

    16saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!

    17For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

  • Isa 1:22
    71%

    22Your silver has become dross, Your wine mixed with water.

  • Prov 10:15
    71%

    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    71%

    11Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, And take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink their wine.

    12For I know how many your offenses, And how great are your sins-- You who afflict the just, Who take a bribe, And who turn aside the needy in the courts.

  • 2 Pet 2:3
    71%

    3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

  • Ezek 7:19
    71%

    19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Job 22:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

    6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Prov 6:11
    70%

    11So your poverty will come as a robber, And your scarcity as an armed man.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."

  • Prov 24:34
    70%

    34So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.

  • Luke 12:21
    70%

    21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  • Nah 3:16
    70%

    16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

  • Prov 11:4
    69%

    4Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.

  • Prov 23:5
    69%

    5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

  • Job 27:18
    69%

    18He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes.

  • Prov 13:7
    69%

    7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • Joel 3:5
    69%

    5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

  • 1 Tim 6:17
    69%

    17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

  • Joel 1:17
    69%

    17The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • Prov 28:22
    69%

    22A stingy man hurries after riches, And doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

  • Job 7:5
    69%

    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

  • 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%

    19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

  • Jas 4:13
    68%

    13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

  • Luke 5:36
    68%

    36He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.