Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Bible References

Your riches

Jeremiah 17:11
He who makes a fortune unjustly
is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his days
his riches will abandon him,
so in the end he will be a fool.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
1 Peter 1:4
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.

Your garments

James 2:2
For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.
Job 13:28
Man wears out like something rotten,
like a moth-eaten garment.


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Psalm 39:11
You discipline a man with punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is precious to him;
every man is only a vapor.Selah
Isaiah 50:9
In truth, the Lord God will help Me;
who will condemn Me?
Indeed, all of them will wear out like a garment;
a moth will devour them.
Isaiah 51:8
For the moth will devour them like a garment,
and the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness will last forever,
and My salvation for all generations.
Hosea 5:12
So I am like rot to Ephraim
and like decay to the house of Judah.

General references

Leviticus 25:14
If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.
Job 27:8
For what hope does the godless man have when he is cut off,
when God takes away his life?
Ezekiel 26:13
I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
Luke 17:28
It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

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