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A Warning to the Rich

James 5:2

In 9 translations

BSB
Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
KJV
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
WEB
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
ASV
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
LSV
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
YLT
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
DBY
Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
DRC
Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.
GNV
Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ὁ πλοῦτος ὑμῶν σέσηπεν, καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν σητόβρωτα γέγονεν,
RP2018
Ὁ πλοῦτος ὑμῶν σέσηπεν, καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν σητόβρωτα γέγονεν·
TR-Boyd
Ὁ πλοῦτος ὑμῶν σέσηπε, καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν σητόβρωτα γέγονεν·
SCR1894
ο πλουτος υμων σεσηπεν και τα ιματια υμων σητοβρωτα γεγονεν

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Matthew 6:19–20Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where…
  • Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
  • Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
  • Isaiah 50:9Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
  • Isaiah 51:8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
  • 1 Peter 1:4and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
  • Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
  • Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
  • Hosea 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
  • James 2:2Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.

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