Topic
Corruption
32 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 17:14ISBE · Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
- Isaiah 38:17ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE — Of sin
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.
- Jonah 2:6ISBE · Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
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.
- Acts 2:27ISBE · Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Galatians 6:8ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE — Of sin
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
- Genesis 3:19Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Genesis 6:11ISBE
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Exodus 32:7ISBE
¶ 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:
- Leviticus 22:25Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION
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 be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
- 2 Kings 23:13Nave FIGURATIVE — Mount of
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 builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for…
- Job 21:26Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
- Job 34:15Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
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- Psalms 16:10 Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
- Psalms 30:9 ISBE
- Psalms 35:7 ISBE
- Psalms 49:9 Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
- Psalms 104:29 Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
- Ecclesiastes 3:20 Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
- Isaiah 66:24 ISBE
- Daniel 12:2 ISBE
- Hosea 9:9 ISBE
- Mark 9:18 ISBE
- Mark 9:43 ISBE
- Acts 2:31 Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
- Acts 13:34–37 Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
- Romans 8:21 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of sin
- 1 Corinthians 15:42 Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
- 1 Corinthians 15:50 Nave PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION — After death
- 2 Peter 1:4 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of sin
- 2 Peter 2:12 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of sin
- 2 Peter 2:19 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of sin
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 14 references
ko-rup'-shun: The Hebrew words mishchath, mashchath, mashchith, and their Greek equivalents, phthora, and diaphthora, with numerous derivatives and cognate verbs, imply primarily physical degeneration and decay (Job 17:14; Ac 2:27, etc.). The term shachath, which the King James Version translates with "corruption" in Jon 2:6, ought to be rendered "pit,". as in Ps 30:9; 35:7 et passim, while shachath beli in Isa 38:17 means the "pit of nothingness," i.e. of destruction.
Figurative: At an early time we find the above-given words in a non-literal sense denoting moral depravity and corruption (Ge 6:11; Ex 32:7; Ho 9:9; Ga 6:8, etc.), which ends in utter moral ruin and hopelessness, the second death. The question has been raised whether the meaning of these words might be extended so as to include the idea of final destruction and annihilation of the spirit. Upon careful examination, however, this question must be denied both from the standpoint of the Old Testament and of the New Testament. Apart from other considerations we see this from the metaphors used in the Scriptures to illustrate the condition of "corruption," such as the "unquenchable fire," the "worm" which "dieth not" (Mr 9:43,18; compare Isa 66:24), and "sleep" (Da 12:2), where a careful distinction is made between the blissful state after death of the righteous and the everlasting disgrace of the godless. The later Jewish theology is also fully agreed on this point. The meaning of the words cannot therefore extend beyond the idea of utter moral degradation and depravity.
H. L. E. Luering
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 23 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION Le 22:25
- → FIGURATIVE
- → JUDICIAL
- See COURT
- See GOVERNMENT
- See JUDGE
- → ECCLESIASTICAL
- See CHURCH, CORRUPT
- See MINISTERS
- → POLITICAL
- See BRIBERY
- See CIVIL SERVICE
- See GOVERNMENT
- See POLITICS
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.