Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Condemnation » Increased by » Oppression
Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is corrupted with rust; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall completely eat your flesh, as fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. read more.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton; ye have refreshed your hearts, as in the day of slaughter of sacrifices.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton; ye have refreshed your hearts, as in the day of slaughter of sacrifices.
Garments » Of the rich » Often moth-eaten
And man, is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten.
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;
How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who shall be crushed by the moth!
He built his house as a moth and as a booth that the keeper makes.
Behold, the Lord GOD 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.
And man, is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten.
Moth » Figurative
Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal;
Moths » Destructive to garments
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;
Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten.
Riches » Described as » Corruptible
knowing that ye have been ransomed from your vain conversation (which you received from your fathers), not with corruptible things like silver and gold,
Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten.