12 Bible Verses about Moths
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"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But gather ye treasures together in heaven, where neither rust, nor yet moths corrupt: and where thieves neither break up, nor yet steal.
How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?
Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.
His house shall endure as the moth, and as a booth that the watchman maketh.
Behold, the LORD God standeth by me: what is he that can condemn me? Lo, they shall be all like as an old cloth, which the moths shall eat up.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as a caterpillar.
"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
For worms shall eat them as a garment, and moths shall devour them as it were wool. But my righteousness shall continue ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.
But gather ye treasures together in heaven, where neither rust, nor yet moths corrupt: and where thieves neither break up, nor yet steal.
Sell that ye have, and give alms. And make you bags, which wax not old, and treasure that faileth not in heaven, where no thief cometh, neither moth corrupteth.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?
His house shall endure as the moth, and as a booth that the watchman maketh.
Behold, the LORD God standeth by me: what is he that can condemn me? Lo, they shall be all like as an old cloth, which the moths shall eat up.
Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Behold, the LORD God standeth by me: what is he that can condemn me? Lo, they shall be all like as an old cloth, which the moths shall eat up.
For worms shall eat them as a garment, and moths shall devour them as it were wool. But my righteousness shall continue ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Moths » Destructive to garments
"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as a caterpillar.
Moths » Illustrative » (making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things
His house shall endure as the moth, and as a booth that the watchman maketh.
Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.
Moths » Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?
