James 5:2

Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1Come, now, you rich men, weep and lament for your miseries that are coming upon you.

3your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and their rust will be a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasures in the last days.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal.

James 2:2For if there comes into your assembly a man in splendid apparel, and with gold rings on his fingers, and there comes in also a poor man, in mean clothing,

Matthew Henry on James 5:2-12

Warnings to the Rich; Motives to Patience under Affliction. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and… Read the whole commentary →

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