13 Bible Verses about Possessions Decaying

Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten.

Man wears out like something rotten,
like a moth-eaten garment.

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You discipline a man with punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is precious to him;
every man is only a vapor.Selah

“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal.

because the one who sows to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

All these regulations refer to what is destroyed by being used up; they are commands and doctrines of men.

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:

Woe to the city of bloodshed,
the pot that has rust inside it,
and whose rust will not come off!
Empty it piece by piece;
lots should not be cast for its contents.

Set the empty pot on its coals
so that it becomes hot and its copper glows.
Then its impurity will melt inside it;
its rust will be consumed.
It has frustrated every effort;
its thick rust will not come off.
Into the fire with its rust!

It has frustrated every effort;
its thick rust will not come off.
Into the fire with its rust!

Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away, but we a crown that will never fade away.

Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days!

so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,