James 5:2
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
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Referenced Verses
- Matt 6:19-20 : 19 `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, 20 but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,
- Job 13:28 : 28 And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
- Isa 50:9 : 9 Lo, the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Who `is' he that declareth me wicked? Lo, all of them as a garment wear out, A moth doth eat them.
- Isa 51:8 : 8 For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.
- Jer 17:11 : 11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.
- Hos 5:12 : 12 And I `am' as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.
- Luke 12:33 : 33 sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;
- Jas 2:2 : 2 for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,
- 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
- Ps 39:11 : 11 With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity `is' every man. Selah.
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- Jas 5:3-53 verses86%
3your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!
4lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
5ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;
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1Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you';
- Matt 6:19-202 verses76%
19`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,
20but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,
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33sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;
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28And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
- Rev 3:17-182 verses74%
17because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
18I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
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11And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
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6and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;
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24`But wo to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort.
- Eccl 5:13-142 verses72%
13There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
14And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!
- Jas 2:2-32 verses72%
2for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,
3and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, `Thou -- sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, `Thou -- stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' --
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9and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,
- Jas 1:10-112 verses72%
10and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;
11for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!
- Rev 18:14-174 verses71%
14`And the fruits of the desire of thy soul did go away from thee, and all things -- the dainty and the bright -- did go away from thee, and no more at all mayest thou find them.
15The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, far off shall stand because of the fear of her torment, weeping, and sorrowing,
16and saying, Wo, wo, the great city, that was arrayed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and gilded in gold, and precious stone, and pearls -- because in one hour so much riches were made waste!
17`And every shipmaster, and all the company upon the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, far off stood,
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22Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.
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15The wealth of the rich `is' his strong city, The ruin of the poor `is' their poverty.
- Amos 5:11-122 verses71%
11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.
12For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.
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3and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
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19Their silver into out-places they cast, And their gold impurity becometh. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of Jehovah, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it hath been.
- Job 22:5-62 verses71%
5Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.
6For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.
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11And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
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6Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.
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34And thy poverty hath come `as' a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!
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21so `is' he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'
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16Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.
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4Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.
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5For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
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18He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
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7There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.
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5In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.
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17Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --
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17Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.
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22Troubled for wealth `is' the man `with' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.
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5Clothed hath been my flesh `with' worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
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19Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation `is' in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
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19So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
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13Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'
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36And he spake also a simile unto them -- `No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that `is' from the new.