James 5:2

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten:

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1Come now, ye rich, weep mourning over your calamities which are coming on you.

3your gold and your silver are cankered; and their rust shall be for a witness against you, and eat your flesh like fire. You laid up treasures in the last days.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal:

James 2:2For if a gold-ringed man may come into your synagogue, in shining apparel, and a poor man may also come in with soiled 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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