12 Bible Verses about Moths
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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:
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
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.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does 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 forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves purses which grow 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 earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
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.
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
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.
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 from generation to generation.
Moths » Destructive to garments
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
Moths » Illustrative » (making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things
Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
Moths » Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
