James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
KJV
ὁ πλοῦτος ὑμῶν σέσηπεν καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν σητόβρωτα γέγονεν,
Greek NT
Divitiæ vestræ putrefactæ sunt, et vestimenta vestra a tineis comesta sunt.
Vulgate
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
ASV
Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πλοῦτος
ploutos
noun · 22×
σήπω
sepo
verb · 1×
σητόβρωτος
setobrotos
adjective · 1×
ἱμάτιον
imation
noun · 59×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2445Love for the poor is incompatible with immoderate love of riches or their selfish use: Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. …
Cross-references
- 1Pet 1:4 — To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
- Isa 50:9 — Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
- Isa 51:8 — 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 salvation from generation to generation.
- Job 13:28 — And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- Judg 14:12 — And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty
- Luke 12:33 — Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
- Matt 6:19 — Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
- Zech 5:4 — I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his hous