James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In Context
1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
Cross References
Job 13:28though I am decaying like a rotten thing,like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Isaiah 50:9Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool."
Matthew 6:19"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
James 2:2For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, 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 →