James 5:2

1 Peter 1:4; Hosea 5:12; Isaiah 50:9; Isaiah 51:8; James 2:2; Jeremiah 17:11; Job 13:28; Luke 12:33; Matthew 6:19; Matthew 6:20; Psalms 39:11

Related Commentaries of James 5:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your riches are corrupted - The word here rendered “corrupted” ( σήπω sēpō) does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It means, to cau...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

From the merely careless rich James turns to the actively oppressive, the fellows of those whom he lashes in James 2:6 f. For him, of course, the p...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

riches . wealth. The Greek word ploutos conveys the idea of abundance. Compare Luke 12:19 . corrupted . Greek. sepo . Only here. are . have...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Your riches. The meaning may be twofold: — that he ridicules their foolish confidence, because the riches in which they placed their happin...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your riches are corrupted - Σεσηπε· Are putrefied. The term πλουτος, riches, is to be tak...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Your riches are corrupted,— By riches here are very probably meant their stores of corn, wine, oil, and other perishing goods, which they used...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Corrupted - about to be destroyed through God's curse for your oppression, whereb...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Rebuke and Encouragement 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Your riches are corrupted... — As expanded in the eloquent gloss of Bishop Wordsworth, “Your wealth is mouldering in corruption, and your garments,...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 23 THE FOLLIES AND INIQUITIES OF THE RICH; THEIR MISERABLE END. James 5:1-6 HERE, if anywhere in the Epistle, the writer glances asid...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Patiently Await the Lord's Coming James 5:1-11 There are many among the rich who are using money as a sacred trust. Not against these does the...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Approaching the conclusion of his letter, the writer addressed a terrible indictment and solemn warning to the rich. He showed the failure of possess...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. (2) Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. (3)...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Your riches are corrupted ,.... Either through disuse of them; and so the phrase is expressive of their tenaciousness, withholding that from themsel...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Ver. 2. Your riches are corrupted ] Being subject to vanity and violence, Matthew 6:...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Your riches are corrupted Greek, σεσηπε, are putrefied , or are as things putrefied by being kept too long. The riches of the ancients consisted m...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Verses 1 Timothy 6 are addressed to rich men, and no doubt specially to those who make some claim of having the knowledge of God. They are bidden t...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Warnings to the Rich; Motives to Patience under Affliction. A. D. 61....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Your riches are corrupted: either by riches he means the general, and by garments, gold and silver, the particulars in which their riches consi...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Diatribe Against The Ungodly Rich ( James 5:1-6 ). Notice the complete contrast between the rich as described here and those who are being tested...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Your riches are corrupted, And your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are corroded, And their corrosion will be for a testimony...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

RULES FOR DAILY CONDUCT CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 5:1 . Rich men. —Always in Scripture, the men who are proud of their riches, cent...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 5:1 . Go to now, or go now, ye rich men. He had taught them humility, because their glory vanished away as the flower of the field: chap....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION James 5:1-59 DENUNCIATION OF THE RICH FOR (1) GRINDING DOWN THE POOR AND KEEPING BACK THEIR WAGES...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Various Admonitions in View of the Nearness of the Judgment. Exhortation to the rich:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The riches of the ancients consisted much in large stores of corn, and of costly apparel.

² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Related Commentaries of James 5:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

James 5:2