14 Bible Verses about Moral Decay
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For the creation was made subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him who made it subject,
For that which is corruptible must put on incorruption, and that which is mortal must put on immortality.
Therefore we never faint; for though our outward man decay, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming; replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers, backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents,read more.
unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful: who, though they know the righteous judgment of God, that they who live in such practices are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also find pleasure in the company of those who live in these practices.
that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;
For he that soweth unto his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption, and he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt become insipid, with what can it be salted? it is of no farther use for any purpose, but to be cast out, and trodden under foot of men.
And this is the promise which we have heard from him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and that darkness in him there is none.
Now verily therefore there is altogether a fault among you, because ye have law-suits one with another. Why do ye not rather submit to the wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
in hope that the same creation shall be emancipated from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Preaching liberty to them, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whatever a man is overcome, by that also he is enslaved.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where the rust and canker spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal:
So every good tree beareth good fruits; but every bad tree in kind, produceth bad fruits.
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