21 Bible Verses about Moral Decay

For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.

A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality.

Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day.

And I answered the second time, and said to him, What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden spouts that empty the golden [oil] out of themselves?

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit; having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;read more.
without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. Who, knowing the righteousness of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also favor those who do.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

So I will break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered [mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be uncovered. And it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst of it. And ye

for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

Because he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Ye are the salt material of the earth. But if the salt material becomes ineffective, by what will it be salted? It is potent for nothing further, except to be cast outside and to be trodden down by men.

I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions. And by the ministry of the prophets I have used similitudes.

For wherever the carcass may be, there the vultures will be gathered together.

And this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Because the creation itself will also be freed from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,

Likewise every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces bad fruits.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.