James 5:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

Cross References

Job 13:28

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Luke 12:33

Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.

Isaiah 50:9

See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.

Isaiah 51:8

For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.

1 Peter 1:4

And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

Psalm 39:11

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. Selah.

Hosea 5:12

And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.

James 2:2

For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,