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Bible Verses About Corruption

This noindex topical Bible draft for Corruption was seeded from the public-domain reference inventory in Nave's Topical Bible. It stores Scripture references and source provenance only, not copied competitor commentary or modern editorial text.

Before publishing, an editor should verify the passage set against THF Bible tools, choose the clearest anchor passages, remove weak or duplicate references, add early Christian evidence where available, and connect the page to relevant lessons, courses, videos, Strong's data, interlinear study, and cross-reference tools. The source inventory included 5 topic entries and produced 20 parsed verse references for review.

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20 references

Supporting Passages

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.

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

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They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

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All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

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For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

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That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

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Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

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All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

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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.

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

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

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And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Whereby are given unto 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.

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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 Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

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