James 5:2

James 5:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
• New International Version (NIV)Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

Context of James 5:2

1Pay attention to this if you’re rich. Cry and moan about the misery that is coming to you. Your riches have decayed, and your clothes have been eaten by moths. 3Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you. Like fire, it will destroy your body. You have stored up riches in these last days. 4The wages you refused to pay the people who harvested your fields shout ⌞to God⌟ against you. The Lord of Armies has heard the cries of those who gather the crops.

James 5:2 word by word

ὁ πλοῦτος ὑμῶν σέσηπεν καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν σητόβρωτα γέγονεν·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Yourσύsu · youG4771
• richesὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• richesπλοῦτοςploutos · richesG4149
• are corruptedσήπωsēpō · to rotG4595
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• garmentsἱμάτιονhimation · clothingG2440
• areγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• motheatenσητόβρωτοςsētobrōtos · moth-eatenG4598

Cross-references for James 5:2

• Jeremiah 17:11A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a godless fool.”
• Matthew 6:19“Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal.
• Luke 12:33“Sell your material possessions, and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves wallets that don’t wear out! Make a treasure for yourselves in heaven that never loses its value! In heaven thieves and moths can’t get close enough to destroy your treasure.
• 1 Peter 1:4We have been born into a new life which has an inheritance that can’t be destroyed or corrupted and can’t fade away. That inheritance is kept in heaven for you,
• James 2:2For example, two men come to your worship service. One man is wearing gold rings and fine clothes; the other man, who is poor, is wearing shabby clothes.
• Job 13:28I am like worn-out wineskins, like moth-eaten clothes.
• Psalms 39:11With stern warnings you discipline people for their crimes. Like a moth you eat away at what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a whisper in the wind. Selah
• Isaiah 50:9The Almighty Lord helps me. Who will find me guilty? They will all wear out like a garment. Moths will eat them.
• Isaiah 51:8Moths will eat them like clothing. Worms will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, and my salvation will last throughout every generation.
• Hosea 5:12I will destroy Ephraim as a moth destroys clothing. I will destroy the nation of Judah as rot destroys wood.

Commentaries on James 5:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Your riches are corrupted - · Are putrefied. The term , riches, is to be taken here, not for gold, silver, or precious stones, (for these could not putrefy), but for the produce of the fields and flocks, the different stores of grain, wine, and oil, which they had laid up in their granaries, and the various changes of raiment which they had amassed in their wardrobes.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Your riches are corrupted - The word here rendered “corrupted” ( ́ sēpō) does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It means, to cause to rot, to corrupt, to destroy. The reference here is to their hoarded treasures; and the idea is, that they had accumulated more than they needed for their own use; and that, instead of distributing them to do good to others, or employing them in any useful way, they kept them until they rotted or spoiled. It is to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The wealth and fine clothes are so excessive that they decay from not being used. Their ruin is a sign of the anticipated judgment.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. corrupted--about to be destroyed through God's curse on your oppression, whereby your riches are accumulated (Jas 5:4). Calvin thinks the sense is, Your riches perish without being of any use either to others or even to yourselves, for instance, your garments which are moth-eaten in your chests. garments ... moth-eaten--referring to Mt 6:19, 20.Read the comment

Topics related to James 5:2

• Moth
• Rich, the
• Riches
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Convert
• Grudge
• Howl
• Nourish
• Pitiful
• Tender
• Wanton
• Moth
• Dress

Commentaries on James 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings