James 5:2

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

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1Weep now, ye rich men, and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

3your gold and silver is cankered, and their rust shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire: ye have been treasuring them up for these last days.

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Cross References

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

James 2:2For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring in fine clothes, and there come in also a poor man in a mean habit;

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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