Bible Verses About Moral Decay

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)