12 Bible Verses about Moths
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"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal.
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.
And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.
"He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth [that] a watchman has made.
Look! The Lord Yahweh helps me. Who is the one who will declare me guilty? Look! All of them will be worn out like a garment; [the] moth will eat them.
But I [am] like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for {generation after generation}."
[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah
but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal.
Sell your possessions and give charitable gifts. Make for yourselves money bags that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven where thief does not approach or moth destroy.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.
"He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth [that] a watchman has made.
Look! The Lord Yahweh helps me. Who is the one who will declare me guilty? Look! All of them will be worn out like a garment; [the] moth will eat them.
And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Look! The Lord Yahweh helps me. Who is the one who will declare me guilty? Look! All of them will be worn out like a garment; [the] moth will eat them.
For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for {generation after generation}."
Moths » Destructive to garments
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
But I [am] like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.
Moths » Illustrative » (making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things
"He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth [that] a watchman has made.
Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.
Moths » Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.
