James 5:2

Your riches have rotted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

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In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1Come now, you who are rich, weep and howl over the miseries that are coming upon you.

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

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Cross References

Matthew 6:19“Do not store up treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

James 2:2Suppose a man in fine clothing comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in.

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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