James 5:2

Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten.

Job 13:28

While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Isaiah 50:9

In fact, the Lord God helps Me;
Who is he who condemns Me [as guilty]?
Indeed, they will all wear out like a garment;
The moth will eat them.

Matthew 6:19-20

“Do not store up for yourselves [material] treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Psalm 39:11

“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;
You consume like a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.

Isaiah 51:8

“For the moth will eat them like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness and justice [faithfully promised] will exist forever,
And My salvation to all generations.”

“Like the partridge that hatches eggs which she has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune in ways that are unjust.
It will be lost to him before his days are over,
And in the end he will be [nothing but] a fool.”

Hosea 5:12

Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like dry rot to the house of Judah [in My judgment against them].

Luke 12:33

“Sell your possessions (show compassion) and give [donations] to the poor. Provide money belts for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing and inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

James 2:2

For if a man comes into your meeting place wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes also comes in,

1 Peter 1:4

[born anew] into an inheritance which is imperishable [beyond the reach of change] and undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

James 5:2

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Your riches

Your garments

General references

Luke 17:28

Bible References

Your riches

“Do not store up for yourselves [material] treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

[born anew] into an inheritance which is imperishable [beyond the reach of change] and undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

Your garments

For if a man comes into your meeting place wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes also comes in,

While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;
You consume like a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.

In fact, the Lord God helps Me;
Who is he who condemns Me [as guilty]?
Indeed, they will all wear out like a garment;
The moth will eat them.

“For the moth will eat them like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness and justice [faithfully promised] will exist forever,
And My salvation to all generations.”

Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like dry rot to the house of Judah [in My judgment against them].

General references

If you sell anything to your friend or buy from your friend, you shall not wrong one another.

“For what is the hope of the godless, even though he has gained [in this world],
When God takes his life?

So I will silence your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.

“Do not store up for yourselves [material] treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

It was the same as it was in the days of Lot. People were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building [carrying on business as usual, without regard for their sins];