12 Bible Verses about Moths
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
Moths » Destructive to garments
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Moths » Illustrative » (making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things
Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Moths » Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
