James 5:2

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

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for the miseries that shall come upon you.

3Your gold and silver is corroded; and their rust shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped treasure together in the last days.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:19Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal:

James 2:2For if there comes into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in fine apparel, and there also comes in a poor man in shabby 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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