12 Bible Verses about Moths
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, 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 from generation to generation.
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 corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all 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 from generation to generation.
Moths » Destructive to garments
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
Therefore will I be 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 a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Moths » Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
