12 Bible Verses about Moths
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
Moths » Destructive to garments
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Moths » Illustrative » (making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things
He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Moths » Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
