7 Bible Verses about Deterioration

(which all are to perish with the using,) after the commandments and teachings of men;

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where the moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumeth, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

Then it goeth, and taketh with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they enter in, and dwell there; and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.

But evil men and impostors will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is worse with them than the first.

For which cause we are not fainthearted; but though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are but for a time; but the things which are not seen are ever lasting.

And: "Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst found the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands. They will perish, but thou remainest; and they will all become old as doth a garment, and thou wilt fold them up as a vesture, and they will be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years will not fail."