Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Bible References

Your riches

Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
Matthew 6:19
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
Luke 12:33
Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
1 Peter 1:4
And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

Your garments

James 2:2
For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,
Job 13:28
Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Psalm 39:11
By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Isaiah 50:9
See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.
Isaiah 51:8
For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.
Hosea 5:12
And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.

General references

Leviticus 25:14
And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
Ezekiel 26:13
I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.
Matthew 6:19
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
Luke 17:28
In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

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