CORRUPTION

Passages on this topic · 26

• Genesis 3:19

  By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

• Leviticus 22:25

  You must not offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner as any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”

• 2 Kings 23:13

  The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• Job 17:14

  If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’

• Job 21:26

  They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

• Job 34:15

  all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

• Psalms 16:10

  For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

• Psalms 49:9

  that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

• Psalms 104:29

  You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

• Ecclesiastes 3:20

  All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

• Ecclesiastes 12:7

  and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

• Isaiah 38:17

  Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

• Jonah 2:6

  I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

• Acts 2:27

  because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

• Acts 2:31

  he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

• Acts 13:34

  “Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

• Acts 13:35

  Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’

• Acts 13:36

  For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

• Acts 13:37

  But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

• Romans 8:21

  that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

• 1 Corinthians 15:42

  So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

• 1 Corinthians 15:50

  Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

• Galatians 6:8

  For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

• 2 Peter 1:4

  by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

• 2 Peter 2:12

  But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

• 2 Peter 2:19

  promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.