Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Holman Bible
Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten.
International Standard Version
Your riches are rotten, your clothes have been eaten by moths,
American Standard Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Amplified
Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten.
An Understandable Version
Your wealth has rotted and moths have eaten your clothing.
Anderson New Testament
Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten:
Bible in Basic English
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
Common New Testament
Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Daniel Mace New Testament
your wealth is wasted, your wardrobe is devour'd by the worm,
Darby Translation
Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
Godbey New Testament
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten:
Goodspeed New Testament
Your wealth has rotted, your clothes are moth-eaten,
John Wesley New Testament
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Julia Smith Translation
Your riches have become corrupted, and your garments have been moth eaten;
King James 2000
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your wealth has rotted, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
Modern King James verseion
Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Your riches is corrupt, your garments are motheaten.
Moffatt New Testament
your wealth lies rotting, and your clothes are moth-eaten;
Montgomery New Testament
For your riches lie rotting, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
NET Bible
Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
New Heart English Bible
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Noyes New Testament
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are become motheaten;
Sawyer New Testament
Your riches have decayed, and your garments are moth-eaten,
The Emphasized Bible
Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth-eaten, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Your wealth is corrupted, and your robes are moth-eaten.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Your riches have wasted away, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
Webster
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Weymouth New Testament
Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten;
Williams New Testament
Your wealth has rotted, your clothes are moth-eaten,
World English Bible
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Worrell New Testament
Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
Worsley New Testament
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten:
Youngs Literal Translation
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
Themes
Condemnation » Increased by » Oppression
Garments » Of the rich » Often moth-eaten
Topics
Interlinear
himation
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Woes On The Rich Who Oppress Others
1 Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. 2 Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days.
Cross References
Job 13:28
Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Isaiah 50:9
Behold, lord LORD will help me. Who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Matthew 6:19-20
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
Psalm 39:11
When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Isaiah 51:8
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations.
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Hosea 5:12
Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Luke 12:33
Sell things possessed by you, and give charity. Make for yourselves purses not becoming old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor moth corrupts.
James 2:2
For if a man with a gold ring in bright clothing comes into your synagogue, and also a poor man in dirty clothing comes in,
1 Peter 1:4
for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you,