James 5:2 “Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.”

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.

Young's Literal Translation

your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

Bible in Basic English

Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

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Cross references

“Your riches”

Luke 12:33 1 Peter 1:4 Jeremiah 17:11 Matthew 6:19 Matthew 6:20

Luke 12:33 · BSB

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

1 Peter 1:4 · BSB

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

Jeremiah 17:11 · BSB

Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

Matthew 6:19 · BSB

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Matthew 6:20 · BSB

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

“your garments”

Job 13:28 Isaiah 50:9 Isaiah 51:8 Psalm 39:11 Hosea 5:12 James 2:2

Job 13:28 · BSB

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Isaiah 50:9 · BSB

Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.

Isaiah 51:8 · BSB

For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”

Psalm 39:11 · BSB

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Hosea 5:12 · BSB

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

James 2:2 · BSB

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

3Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.

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