New English Translation
James 5:2
2Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
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
1Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you. Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten. 3Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure! 4Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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ὁ πλοῦτος ὑμῶν σέσηπεν καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν σητόβρωτα γέγονεν·Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for James 5:2
- Jeremiah 17:11The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
- Matthew 6:19“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
- Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out – a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- 1 Peter 1:4that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,
- James 2:2For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,
- Job 13:28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
- Psalms 39:11You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)
- Isaiah 50:9Look, the sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.
- Isaiah 51:8For a moth will eat away at them like clothes; a clothes moth will devour them like wool. But the vindication I provide will be permanent; the deliverance I give will last.”
- Hosea 5:12I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.
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
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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
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