17 Bible Verses about Decay

that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

Your riches have decayed, and your garments are moth-eaten,

For the creation was subjected to a perishable condition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope

Wherefore we faint not, but if our outward man is destroyed our inward man is renewed day by day.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal. But lay up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither a moth nor corrosion destroys, and where thieves dig not through nor steal;

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its strength, with what shall it be seasoned? It is good for nothing more, except being cast out to be trodden upon by men.

Sell your property and bestow charity; make yourselves purses that become not old, and a treasury that fails not, in heaven, where no thief approaches, nor moth destroys;

Salt, therefore, is good; but if the salt has lost its strength, with what shall it be seasoned?

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the 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 desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.

him has God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, as it was not possible that he should be held by it. For David says of him, I saw the Lord always before me, he is on my right hand that I should not be moved; therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad, and my flesh, moreover, shall also live in hope;read more.
for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor suffer thy Holy One to see destruction. Thou hast made me know the ways of life, thou wilt fill me with joy with thy presence. Men and brothers, let me speak to you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him to set a descendant of his on his throne, foreseeing he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that he was not left in hades neither did his flesh see destruction.

And that he raised him from the dead never more to return to destruction, he said thus; I will give you the sure promises of David. Wherefore also in another place he says, Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see destruction. For David, having in his generation served the will of God, fell asleep, and was gathered to his fathers and saw destruction;read more.
but he whom God raised up saw not destruction.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in destruction, it is raised in indestructibleness;

for we have not here a city that continues, but we seek that which is to come.

and he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, nor shall lamentation nor crying nor pain be any more, for the former things have passed away.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle was destroyed, we have an edifice from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we also groan, earnestly desiring to put on our dwelling which is from heaven, if indeed also having put it on we may not be found naked.read more.
For being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened, because we do not wish to put it off, but to put on [the other], that the mortal may be swallowed up by life. And he that has made us for this is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit.