12 Bible Verses about Moths
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Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up treasures in Heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help Me; who is he who shall condemn Me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.
Therefore I am as a moth to Ephraim, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, 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 forever, and My salvation from generation to generation.
You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
But lay up treasures in Heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
Sell what you have and give alms. Make for yourselves purses which do not become old, an unfailing treasure in Heaven, where no thief comes nor moth corrupts.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help Me; who is he who shall condemn Me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help Me; who is he who shall condemn Me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.
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
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
Therefore I am as a moth to Ephraim, and to the house of Judah as 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 those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
