14 Bible Verses about Moral Decay
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who were not, by their own choice, expos'd to this uncertain state, but by virtue of him, who subjected them thereto:
for this corruptible body must be invested with incorruptibility, this mortal be invested with immortality.
for which cause I am not discouraged, but tho' my body decays, yet my mind is daily renewed.
As they did not seek the favour of God, by worshipping him, God gave them over to a depraved sense, to act unworthy of human nature; they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, enemies of God, injurious, proud, vain, inventers of vices, disobedient to parents, void of judgment,read more.
fidelity, and natural affection; implacable, and unmerciful: who knowing the divine rule of right, did not perceive that they who commit such things are worthy of death, and not only they who do the same, but they who give countenance to those that do them.
to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:
he that soweth to his vices, shall reap the deadly fruit of his vices; but he that sows to the spirit, shall of the spirit reap everlasting life.
Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt become insipid, how shall it recover its savour? it is no longer fit for any thing, but to be cast out and trod under foot.
This then is the commission we have from him, to declare unto you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness.
beside, you are absolutely in the wrong in going to law with one another at all: why don't you rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer loss?
and therefore hope to be removed from this slavish condition of mortality to the free inheritance of divine glory.
whilst they promise others liberty, they themselves are slaves to their corrupt passions. for he that is vanquished, is a slave to the conqueror.
Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
or figs of thistles? so every good tree yields good fruit: but a corrupt tree yields bad fruit.
