James 5:2

Your riches have decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!

3Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:19“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal;

James 2:2For if a man enters into your assembly with a gold ring, in fine clothes, and there should also come in a poor man in dirty clothes,

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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