14 Bible Verses about Moral Decay

For nature did not of its own accord give up to failure; it was for the sake of Him who let it thus be given up, in the hope

For this decaying part of us must put on the body that can never decay, and this part once capable of dying must put on the body that can never die.

So I never give up; instead, although my outer nature is wasting away, my inner nature is constantly renewed from day to day.

And so, as they did not approve of fully recognizing God any longer, God gave them up to minds that He did not approve, to practices that were improper; because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will; they are secret backbiters, open slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of evil, undutiful to parents,read more.
conscienceless, treacherous, with no human love or pity. Although they know full well God's sentence that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only practice them but even applaud others who do them.

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

The person who sows to gratify his lower nature will reap destruction from that lower nature, and the person who sows to gratify his higher nature will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its strength, what can make it salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden under foot.

Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will flock.

And this is the message that we have heard from Him and now announce to you: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in Him.

To say no more, it is a mark of moral failure among you to have lawsuits at all with one another. Why not rather suffer being wronged? Why not suffer being robbed?

that even nature itself might finally be set free from its bondage to decay, so as to share the glorious freedom of God's children.

promising them freedom, though they are slaves of destruction themselves; for a man is the slave of anything that conquers him.

"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.

So any healthy tree bears good fruit and a sickly tree bears poor fruit.