7 Bible Verses about Deterioration

(all which things tend to corruption by abuse) according to the injunctions and doctrines of men?

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where the rust and canker spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor canker spoil, and where thieves do not dig through and steal;

Then goeth he, and taketh seven other spirits, more wicked than himself; and they entering in, take up their abode there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

But wicked men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and deceived.

For if having escaped from the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again enveloped by them and overcome, their last deeds are worse than the first.

Therefore we never faint; for though our outward man decay, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our momentary light affliction worketh for us a transcendently far more exceeding eternal weight of glory; whilst we direct our aim not to the things which are seen, but to the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are eternal.

"And thou from the beginning, O Lord, hast founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands. They will be destroyed, but thou remainest; and they all will grow old as a garment, and as a cloak thou wilt wrap them up, and they will undergo a change: but thou art the same, and thy years will never end."