13 Bible Verses about Things Wearing Out
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"Sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves wallets that don't wear out a dependable treasure in heaven, where no thief can get close and no moth can destroy anything.
"Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
"The clothes you wore did not wear out, nor did your feet blister during these 40 years.
Though I've led you for 40 years in the desert, neither your clothes nor your shoes have worn out.
You sustained them in the wilderness for 40 years. They lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
they took the initiative by preparing their provisions shrewdly: they took tattered sacks for their donkeys, worn-out, torn, and mended wineskins, worn-out, patched sandals for their feet, and worn-out clothes. All of their food was dried out and covered in mold.
And these wineskins were new when we filled them, but look now they're cracked. And our clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey."
But the vessel he was working on with the clay was ruined in the potter's hand. So he remade it into another vessel that seemed appropriate to him.
Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!
A crushed reed he will not break, and a fading candle he won't snuff out. He'll bring forth justice for the truth.
He will not snap off a broken reed or snuff out a smoldering wick until he has brought justice through to victory.
They will perish, but you will remain; and they all will become worn out, like a garment. You will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.
"Lift up your eyes, you heavens and look to the earth beneath; and see who created these. Its inhabitants will die just like this; but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never fail.
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