James 5:2

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• Matthew 6:19–20
  Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
• Job 13:28
  So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
• Luke 12:33
  Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
• Isaiah 50:9
  Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
• Isaiah 51:8
  For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
• 1 Peter 1:4
  …and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
• Psalm 39:11
  You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
• Jeremiah 17:11
  Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
• Hosea 5:12
  So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Parallels

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Proverbs 23:1–5· 1 Timothy 6:17–19

Glossary

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Letter of James· Moth· Wages· Wealth

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Condemnation: Increased by Oppression· Garments of the Rich: Often Moth-Eaten· Hoarding· Moth: Figurative· Riches: Corruptible· Riches: General Scriptures Concerning· The Moth: Destructive to Garments· The Rich: General Scriptures Concerning