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Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.(A)

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Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.(A)

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Concerning Treasures

19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust[a] consume and where thieves break in and steal,(A) 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust[b] consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.19 Gk eating
  2. 6.20 Gk eating

Treasures in Heaven(A)

19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,(B) where moths and vermin destroy,(C) and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,(D) where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.(E)

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28 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
    like a garment that is moth-eaten.(A)

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28 “So man wastes away like something rotten,
    like a garment(A) eaten by moths.(B)

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33 Sell your possessions and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.(A)

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33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor.(A) Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven(B) that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.(C)

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It is the Lord God who helps me;
    who will declare me guilty?
All of them will wear out like a garment;
    the moth will eat them up.(A)

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It is the Sovereign Lord(A) who helps(B) me.
    Who will condemn(C) me?
They will all wear out like a garment;
    the moths(D) will eat them up.

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For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
    and the worm will eat them like wool,
but my deliverance will be forever
    and my salvation to all generations.(A)

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For the moth will eat them up like a garment;(A)
    the worm(B) will devour them like wool.
But my righteousness will last forever,(C)
    my salvation through all generations.”

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and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

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and into an inheritance(A) that can never perish, spoil or fade.(B) This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,(C)

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11 Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay,
    so are all who amass wealth unjustly;
in midlife it will leave them,
    and at their end they will prove to be fools.

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11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
    are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
    and in the end they will prove to be fools.(A)

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11 “You chastise mortals
    in punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is dear to them;
    surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah(A)

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11 When you rebuke(A) and discipline(B) anyone for their sin,
    you consume(C) their wealth like a moth(D)
    surely everyone is but a breath.(E)

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12 Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim
    and like rottenness to the house of Judah.(A)

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12 I am like a moth(A) to Ephraim,
    like rot(B) to the people of Judah.

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For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in,

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Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.

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