Corruption

How Nave’s arranged it

• PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITIONLeviticus 22:25
• After deathGenesis 3:19Job 17:14Job 21:26Job 34:15Psalms 16:10Psalms 49:9Psalms 104:29Ecclesiastes 3:20Ecclesiastes 12:7Jonah 2:6Acts 2:27Acts 2:31Acts 13:34–371 Corinthians 15:421 Corinthians 15:50
• FIGURATIVE
• Of sinIsaiah 38:17Romans 8:21Galatians 6:82 Peter 1:42 Peter 2:122 Peter 2:19
• Mount of2 Kings 23:13
• JUDICIAL
• See Court
• See Government
• See Judge
• ECCLESIASTICAL
• See Church, Corrupt
• See Ministers

The passages, in Bible order (23)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 3:19

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

   ›Commentary on Genesis 3:191 voice

   “Now, certainly nothing else is raised than that which is sown; and nothing else is sown than that which decays in the ground; and it is nothing else than the flesh which is decayed in the ground. For this was the substance which God's decree demolished, "Earth you are, and to earth shall you return;" Genesis 3:19 because it was taken out of the earth.

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2. Leviticus 22:25

   Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 22:251 voice

   “A stranger’s hand - The word here rendered “stranger”, is not the same as that in Lev 22:10, Lev 22:18: it means literally, “the son of the unknown”, and probably refers to one dwelling in another land who desired to show respect to the God of Israel. See 1Ki 8:41.

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3. 2 Kings 23:13

   The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 23:131 voice

   “Mount of corruption - This, says Jarchi, following the Chaldee, was the mount of Olives, for this is the mount המשחה hammishchah, of unction; but because of the idolatrous purposes for which it was used, the Scripture changed the appellation to the mount המשחית hammashchith, of corruption. Ashtoreth the abomination, etc. - See on 1Ki 11:7 (note).

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4. Job 17:14

   and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

   ›Commentary on Job 17:141 voice

   “I have said to corruption - I came from a corrupted stock, and I must go to corruption again. The Hebrew might be thus rendered: To the ditch I have called, Thou art my father. To the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. I am in the nearest state of affinity to dissolution and corruption: I may well call them my nearest relations, as I shall soon be blended with them.

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5. Job 21:26

   But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

   ›Commentary on Job 21:262 voices

   “Ver. 26. And yet they shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. What wonder then if those persons for a moment run a course unlike in the prosperity and adversity of this world, who through the corruption of the flesh return alike to the earth? So that life alone is to be thought on, wherein together with the resurrection of the flesh there is the arrival at an unlike end of recompensing.

   “They shall lie down alike in the dust - Death levels all distinctions, and the grave makes all equal. There may be a difference in the grave itself; but the human corpse is the same in all. Splendid monuments enshrine corruption; but the sod must lie close and heavy upon the putrefying carcass, to prevent it from becoming the bane of the living.

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6. Job 34:15

   all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

   ›Commentary on Job 34:152 voices

   “All flesh shall perish together,.... Not one by one, or one after another, as they generally do, but all together; as when the flood swept away the world of the ungodly.

   “All flesh shall perish together - If God chose, he would have a right to cut down the whole race. How then shall people complain of the loss of health, comforts, and friends, and presume to arraign God as if he were unjust?

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7. Psalms 16:10

   For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

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   “Moreover my flesh too shall rest in hope. For you will not leave my soul in hell, nor will you give your holy one to see corruption. It is superfluous to wish to treat of those things which have been explained by the apostles. We therefore say these things, which were passed over by them as being, as it were, of lesser importance: that he said, "My flesh shall dwell in hope," for this reason, that the Savior descended to the dead with the hope of rising again at once.

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8. Psalms 49:9

   that he should live on forever and not see decay.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 49:91 voice

   “That he should still live for ever,.... Or "though he should live", &c. (w). Though the rich man should live ever so long, a thousand years twice told, as in Ecc 6:6; yet he could not in all this time, with all his riches, redeem his brother; and at last must die himself, and so must his brother too, as his own experience and observation may assure him, Psa 49:

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9. Psalms 104:29

   When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 104:291 voice

   So when the Spirit was moving on the water, the creation was without grace; but after this world being created underwent the operation of the Spirit, it gained all the beauty of that grace wherewith the world is illuminated. And that the grace of the universe cannot abide without the Holy Spirit the prophet declared when he said, "You will take away your Spirit, and they will fail and be turned again into their dust. Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be made, and you will renew all the face of the earth."

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10. Ecclesiastes 3:20

    All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

    ›Commentary on Ecclesiastes 3:202 voices

    “The resurrection as a fact is not to be rejected because of an exceptional situation. Yet, since all things earthly return and crumble into the earth, I wonder how there can be any doubt even concerning the instances noted. For the most part, the sea itself also casts up on neighboring shores whatever human bodies it has swallowed. And if this were not so, it surely would not be difficult for God to join what has been scattered and to unite again what has been dispersed.

    “All go unto one place,.... The earth (w) from whence they came; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again; Adam's body was made of the dust of the earth, and so all his posterity, all of them; in which they agree with beasts, who are made of the dust also; and, when they die, return to it; see Gen 2:7. (w) "Magna parens terra est", Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. Fab. 7.

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11. Ecclesiastes 12:7

    before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

    ›Commentary on Ecclesiastes 12:71 voice

    "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." He goes on more clearly: "the dust will return to the earth, whence it was taken, and the spirit is returned to God, who gave it". From which there is enough to smile at in those who think that spirits are produced with bodies, not from God, but are made from the parent's body.

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12. Isaiah 38:17

    Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

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13. Jonah 2:6

    To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

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14. Acts 2:27

    because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

    ›Commentary on Acts 2:272 voices

    Truly the prophet David also, according to the interpretation of the great Peter, said with foresight of him, "You will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your holy one to see corruption," while the apostle Peter thus expounds the saying, that "his soul was not left in hell, neither did his flesh see corruption."

    “Thou wilt not leave my soul - The word “soul,” with us, means “the thinking, the immortal part of man,” and is applied to it whether existing in connection with the body or separate from it.

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15. Acts 2:31

    Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

    ›Commentary on Acts 2:311 voice

    "To raise up Christ in the flesh." He says this because according to His Divinity He has from eternity and always sat together with the Father; and he ascribes everything to the Father, so that the listeners might more easily accept what is being said.

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16. Acts 13:34–37

    In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’

    ›Commentary on Acts 13:34–371 voice

    “Because I will give you the holy and faithful promises of David, that is, whatever I promised David, I will surely and faithfully fulfill to you, namely, that Christ would be born from his lineage. For Isaiah, tasting the mysteries of the New Testament in …

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