Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
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,
A Conservative Version
Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
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:
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 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. 2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. 3 Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
Cross References
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.
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.
Matthew 6:19-20
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.
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 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.
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.
Hosea 5:12
And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.
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.
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,
1 Peter 1:4
And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,