James 5:2

Youre ryches is corrupte youre garmentes are motheaten.

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In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1Goo to now ye ryche men. Wepe and howle on youre wretchednes that shall come apon you.

3Youre golde and youre silver are cankred and the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you and shall eate youre flesshe as it were fyre. Ye have heaped treasure togedder in youre last dayes:

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Cross References

Matthew 6:19Se that ye gaddre you not treasure vpon the erth where rust and mothes corrupte and where theves breake through and steale.

James 2:2Yf ther come into youre company a man with a golden rynge and in goodly aparell and ther come in also a poore man in vyle rayment

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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