A moment in scripture
James 5:2
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Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
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The surrounding passage
- James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
- James 5:3
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.
- James 5:4
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.