James 5:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

² Your wealth has rotted and moths have eaten your clothing.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

Common English Bible

² Your riches have rotted. Moths have destroyed your clothes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Your riches have been corrupted, and your garments have been eaten by moths.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

James 5:2 Cross References

Luke 12:33

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.

James 2:2

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.

1 Peter 1:4

Through Him we have an inheritance that cannot be corrupted or contaminated, and will never disappear; it is reserved in heaven for you.