33 Bible Verses about Decay

That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Your riches have become corrupted, and your garments have been moth eaten;

And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope,

Wherefore we lose not courage; but if also our man without is destroyed, but he within is renewed day and day.

Thou wilt turn man even to crushing, and thou wilt say, Turn back, ye sons of man. For a thousand years in thine eyes as the day of yesterday, for it shall pass away, and watches in the night. Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away.read more.
In the morning it will flourish, and it will pass away at evening; it will be cut off and will dry up. For we were finished in thine Anger, and in thy wrath we were terrified. Thou didst set our iniquities before thee, our hidden things before the light of thy face. For all our days turned away in thy wrath: we finished our years as a meditation The days of our years, in them seventy years; and if in strengths, eighty years, and their pride labor and vanity; for being soon cut off and we shall fly away.

And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall see God:

(And the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceased forever:) And he shall yet live forever, he shall not see destruction.

Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal: But treasure to you treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor gnawing destroy; and where thieves dig not through, nor steal.

They shall perish and thou shalt stand. And all they shall fall away as a garment; as clothing thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.

Salt good: but if salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be fitted?

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passes away, and its eager desires: but he doing the will of God remains for ever.

Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death: as it was not possible for him to be holden of it. For David says about him, I saw beforehand the Lord before me always, for he is of my right hand, that I be not moved: For this my heart was gladdened, and my tongue was transported with joy; and yet also shall my flesh encamp in hope:read more.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hades neither wilt thou give thy sanctified one to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with gladness with thy face. Men, brethren, it is permitted to speak with freedom of speech to you of the patriarch David, for he died and was buried, and his tomb is with us even till this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him, of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up Christ to sit upon his throne: Foreknowing, he spake of the rising up of Christ, that his soul was not left in hades, neither did his flesh see corruption.

And that he raised him from the dead, no more about to return to corruption, so he said, That I will give you the holy, faithful things of David. For also in another, he says, Thou shalt not give thy Holy one to see corruption. For David, truly having served his own generation by the will of God, was set to sleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption:read more.
But whom God raised up, he saw no corruption.

So also the rising up of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.

And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed.

And if ye will not hear to me, and will not do all these commands; And if ye shall reject my laws. and if your soul shall abhor my judgments so as not to do all my commands, to your breaking my covenant: Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.

And if thou didst turn aside instead of thy husband, and if thou wert defiled, and a man gave with thee his bed besides thy husband; And the priest bound the woman by an oath in these curses, and the priest said to the woman, Jehovah will give thee for a curse, and for an oath in the midst of thy people, in Jehovah's giving thy thigh to fall, and thy belly to go forth. And the waters causing the curse shall come into thy bowels, and cause thy belly to come forth, and thy thigh to fall. And the woman said, Amen, amen.

Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust

It shall devour the bars of his skin: the first-born of death shall devour his bars.

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.

The unjust one shall see and be angry; shall gnash his teeth and he melted away: the desire of the unjust shall perish.

For this as the tongue of fire consumes the straw, and the dry grass of flame will collapse: their root shall be as rottenness, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of Jehovah of armies, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel they despised.

And it was in that day the glory of Jacob shall be feeble, and the fatness of his flesh shall waste away.

And he will tear away as a garden his dwelling: he destroyed his appointment: Jehovah caused to forget the appointment in Zion, and the Sabbath, and he will despise in the wrath of his anger the king and the priest.

For this the land shall mourn, and every one in it languished with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heavens; and also the fish of the sea shall be taken away.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth from beneath: for the heavens as smoke vanished away, and the earth as a garment shall decay, and they inhabiting as thus shall die; and my salvation shall be forever, and my justice shall not be broken. Hear to me, ye knowing justice, the people my law in their heart; ye shall not fear the reproach of men; and from their reviling ye shall not be dismayed. For the moth shall eat them as a garment, and as wool shall the moth eat them: and my justice shall be forever, and my salvation to generation of generations.

For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For also in this we groan, longing to have our dwelling from heaven put on: If also being even clothed we shall not be found naked.read more.
For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life. And he having brought us about to this same, God, he having also given us the pledge of the Spirit.