Bible Verses About Moral Decline

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

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

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

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.

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

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.

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

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 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:

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

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

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

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.

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

And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

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

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

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

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.