12 Bible Verses about Moths
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust deteriorates, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
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.
Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
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.
When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust deteriorates, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
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.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
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.
Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
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.
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.
Moths » Destructive to garments
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Moths » Illustrative » (making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things
He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Moths » Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
