James 5:2

Your wealth is corrupted, and your robes are moth-eaten.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1COME now, ye rich men, let your tears run down, howling over your miseries which are coming upon you.

3Your gold and silver is cankered with rust; and the rust upon them is a testimony against you, and shall eat into your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasures in the last days.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where the rust and canker spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal:

James 2:2For if there come into your congregation a man with a gold ring, and in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in a sordid garb;

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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