21 Bible Verses about Moral Decay

for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope

A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones.

For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.

Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day.

And I answered the second time and said unto him, What are the two olive-branches which are beside the two golden tubes that empty the gold out of themselves?

And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things; being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,read more.
void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful; who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them.

A woman of worth is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

And 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 discovered; and it shall fall, and ye shall be destroyed in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life:

Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have become insipid, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for anything but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot by men.

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

For wherever the carcase is, there will be gathered the eagles.

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

Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;

So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits.

{To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.