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James 5:2

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial
KJV ORIGINAL
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE

Your wealth has gone rotten, and your fancy clothes are falling apart with holes in them.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

All that stuff you're hoarding? It's literally decomposing while people around you are struggling.

📜 Historical ContextWhy was this verse written?

The letter of James was written by James, the brother of Jesus, to Jewish Christians dispersed throughout the Roman Empire during the mid-first century CE

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