James 5:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.

Cross References

Job 13:28

One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Psalm 39:11

“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah

Isaiah 50:9

It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.

Isaiah 51:8

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool, but my deliverance will be forever and my salvation to all generations.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Hosea 5:12

Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.

Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

James 2:2

For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in,

1 Peter 1:4

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,