12 Bible Verses about Moths
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal;
How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who shall be crushed by the moth!
And man, is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.
He built his house as a moth and as a booth that the keeper makes.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Therefore I will be unto 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 corrupt, 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 for ever, and my saving health from age to age.
When thou with chastening dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his greatness to consume away like a moth; surely every man is vanity. Selah.
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal;
Sell what ye have and give alms; ; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches neither moth corrupts.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;
How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who shall be crushed by the moth!
He built his house as a moth and as a booth that the keeper makes.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
And man, is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax 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 for ever, and my saving health from age to age.
Moths » Destructive to garments
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;
Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
Therefore I will be unto 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 built his house as a moth and as a booth that the keeper makes.
Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
And man, is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Moths » Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who shall be crushed by the moth!