Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your riches
Your garments
General references
Bible References
Your riches
Jeremiah 17:11
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
Matthew 6:19
Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.
Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make yourselves purses that do not get old, a treasure in heaven where moth and rest cannot corrupt and thieves cannot steal.
1 Peter 1:4
You are born to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away and is reserved in heaven for you.
Your garments
James 2:2
A man wearing a gold ring and fine clothes and a poor man in shabby clothes comes into your synagogue.
Job 13:28
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
Psalm 39:11
With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.
Isaiah 50:9
The Lord Jehovah helps me. Who will find me guilty? They will all wear out like a garment and moths will eat them.
Isaiah 51:8
The moth will eat them up like a garment. The worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever! My salvation will last through all generations.
Hosea 5:12
I am like a moth to Ephraim and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
General references
Leviticus 25:14
In the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.
Job 27:8
What hope doe the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Ezekiel 26:13
So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.
Matthew 6:19
Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.
Luke 17:28
The days of Lot were similar. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted and they built.