James 5:2
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2 Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.
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Matthew 6:19-20
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Teaching about Money and Possessions
19 “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.
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Job 13:28
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28 I waste away like rotting wood,
like a moth-eaten coat.
Luke 12:33
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33 “Sell your possessions and give to those in need. This will store up treasure for you in heaven! And the purses of heaven never get old or develop holes. Your treasure will be safe; no thief can steal it and no moth can destroy it.
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Isaiah 50:9
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9 See, the Sovereign Lord is on my side!
Who will declare me guilty?
All my enemies will be destroyed
like old clothes that have been eaten by moths!
Isaiah 51:8
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8 For the moth will devour them as it devours clothing.
The worm will eat at them as it eats wool.
But my righteousness will last forever.
My salvation will continue from generation to generation.”
1 Peter 1:4
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4 and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.
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Jeremiah 17:11
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Jeremiah’s Trust in the Lord
11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid,
so are those who get their wealth by unjust means.
At midlife they will lose their riches;
in the end, they will become poor old fools.
Psalm 39:11
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11 When you discipline us for our sins,
you consume like a moth what is precious to us.
Each of us is but a breath. Interlude
Hosea 5:12
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12 I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool.
I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood.
James 2:2
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2 For example, suppose someone comes into your meeting[a] dressed in fancy clothes and expensive jewelry, and another comes in who is poor and dressed in dirty clothes.
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- 2:2 Greek your synagogue.
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