Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is rusted; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days. read more.
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten. Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms



How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth? Verse ConceptsFoundationsInsectsProperty, HousesMan, Insignificance OfMothsMetaphorical HousesCreatures From Dust

He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that the keeper makes. Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsSpidersDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures

Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Verse ConceptsClothingHelpfulnessInsectsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormPeople Wearing OutNo CondemnationGod Helps

And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten. Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms


Therefore will I be unto Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness. Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsPeople RottingPeople Eaten By Worm


Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:



Since you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers; Verse ConceptsFutilityemptinessGoldMarketsRiches, Nature OfRiches, Description OfPossessions DecayingTransient WealthUseless EndeavourPeople Are CorruptibleMoney's Deficienciesfearlessliberationredeemed