Bible Verses About Corruption

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption [is] in them, [and] blemishes [are] in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption:

He seeing this before, spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither did his flesh see corruption.

And as concerning that he raised him from the dead, [now] no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

For he that soweth to his flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall from the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption:

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he brought into bondage.

And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem, which [were] on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.

Wherefore he saith also in another [psalm], Thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption:

But he whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality.