13 Bible Verses about Possessions Decaying

Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.

Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

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

(referring to things that all perish as they are used)--according to human precepts and teachings?

"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.

Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed. She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!

She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.

so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,