Corruption
17 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Mount of
- 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 …
Physical Decomposition
- 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.’”
Physical Decomposition: After Death
- 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.”
- Job 17:14 and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
- Job 21:26 But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
- Job 34:15 all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
- Psalm 16:10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Psalm 49:9 that he should live on forever and not see decay.
- Psalm 104:29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- 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!
- Acts 2:27 because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- 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.
- 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.’ …
- 1 Corinthians 15:42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.
- 1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Related topics
Corruption of SinNatural Death is Described as Returning to Dust
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.