James 5:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Your wealth has rotted and moths have eaten your clothing. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten. American Standard Version (1901) Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Common English Bible Your riches have rotted. Moths have destroyed your clothes. Catholic Public Domain Version Your riches have been corrupted, and your garments have been eaten by moths. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. |
Sell your possessions and give [the money] to poor people; provide yourselves with money belts that do not wear out [i.e., from the constant use of carrying much money all the time, instead of investing it in others’ needs]. [Then you will possess] an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief can approach, nor moth destroy.
For, suppose a person comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothing and [then another] person comes in who is poor and dressed in shabby clothing.
Through Him we have an inheritance that cannot be corrupted or contaminated, and will never disappear; it is reserved in heaven for you.