Devine Scripture

James 5:2

James chapter 5 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.1Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

v.2This passage

v.3Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 50:9

    Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

  • Jeremiah 17:11

    As the partridge that sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

  • 1 Peter 1:4

    unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

  • Job 13:28

    Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • Matthew 6:19

    Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:

  • Isaiah 51:8

    For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.