'Rotten' in the Bible
And the foremen said to them, “May the Lord look upon you and judge you, because you have made us odious (something hated) in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and you have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
The mouth of the righteous flows with [skillful and godly] wisdom,But the perverted tongue will be cut out.
Trusting an unreliable person in a difficult timeis like a rotten tooth or a faltering foot.
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes strawand as dry grass shrivels in the flame,so their roots will become like something rottenand their blossoms will blow away like dust,for they have rejectedthe instruction of the Lord of Hosts,and they have despisedthe word of the Holy One of Israel.
He who is poor by heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artisan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image -- not moved.
I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?
This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “I am about to send against them sword, famine, and plague and will make them like rotten figs that are inedible because they are so bad.
So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
And I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
I will drive the northerner far from youand banish him to a dry and desolate land,his front ranks into the Dead Sea,and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea.His stench will rise;yes, his rotten smell will rise,for he has done catastrophic things.
In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit.
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot produce good fruit.
"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, because a tree is known by its fruit.
"A good tree doesn't produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn't produce good fruit,
No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.