James 5:2 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.”

James 5:2 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

James 5:2 in 6 Bible Translations

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James 5:2 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.”

James 5:2 — World English Bible

James 5:2 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. ”

James 5:2 — American Standard Version

James 5:2 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;”

James 5:2 — Young's Literal Translation

James 5:2 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten. ”

James 5:2 — Darby Translation

James 5:2 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.”

James 5:2 — Geneva Bible

James 5:2 in Context — James 5

1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

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What Does James 5:2 Mean?

James 5:2 is a verse from the Book of James, part of the New Testament. It appears in James chapter 5. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Greek.

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