King James Version
James 5:2 in the King James Version says “Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.” — study this verse from James chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.”
James 5:2 · KJV
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
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.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“riches”
G4149wealth (as fulness), i.e., (literally) money, possessions, or (figuratively) abundance, richness, (specially), valuable bestowment
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“are”
G1096to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e., (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
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