13 Bible Verses about Things Wearing Out

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out -- a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

For forty years you sustained them. Even in the desert they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

they did something clever. They collected some provisions and put worn-out sacks on their donkeys, along with worn-out wineskins that were ripped and patched. They had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn-out clothes. All their bread was dry and hard.

These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey."

Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope.

A crushed reed he will not break, a dim wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully make just decrees.

He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.

They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear.

Look up at the sky! Look at the earth below! For the sky will dissipate like smoke, and the earth will wear out like clothes; its residents will die like gnats. But the deliverance I give is permanent; the vindication I provide will not disappear.