27 Bible Verses about worms
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But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
"They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor harvest; for the worm shall eat them.
Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says the LORD, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to the LORD our God, and will be afraid because of you.
45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into hell.
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell,
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Notwithstanding they did not listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
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Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.