Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you. Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure! read more.
Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths. Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms



how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth? Verse ConceptsFoundationsInsectsProperty, HousesMan, Insignificance OfMothsMetaphorical HousesCreatures From Dust

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made. Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsSpidersDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures

Look, the sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them. Verse ConceptsClothingHelpfulnessInsectsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormPeople Wearing OutNo CondemnationGod Helps

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths. Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms


I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah. Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsPeople RottingPeople Eaten By Worm


"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.



You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold, Verse ConceptsFutilityemptinessGoldMarketsRiches, Nature OfRiches, Description OfPossessions DecayingTransient WealthUseless EndeavourPeople Are CorruptibleMoney's Deficienciesfearlessliberationredeemed