Bible verses about "corruption" | Rotherham

²⁵ then Moses commanded the Levites, who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying: ²⁶ Take this scroll of the law, and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God,––so shall it be there in thy midst as a witness. ²⁷ For, I, know thy perverseness, and thy stiff neck,––lo! while I am yet alive with you today, ye are, quarrelling, with Yahweh, and how much more after my death? ²⁸ Call together unto me, all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,––and let me speak in their hearing these words, and let me take to witness against them the heavens and the earth. ²⁹ For I know that, after my death, ye will, break faith, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you,––and calamity will befall you, in the afterpart of the days, because ye will do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him with the work of your own hands.

¹⁰ For thou wilt not abandon my soul to hades, neither wilt thou suffer thy man of lovingkindness, to see corruption:

³³ These things, have I spoken unto you, that, in me, ye may have, peace: In the world, ye have, tribulation; but be taking courage,––I, have overcome the world.

³⁴ And, in that he raised him from among the dead, no more destined to return unto corruption, on this wise hath he spoken––I will give unto you the faithful lovingkindnesses of David. ³⁵ Wherefore also, in a different [place], he saith––Thou wilt not give thy man of lovingkindness to see corruption. ³⁶ For, David, indeed, unto his own generation having done service, by the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was added unto fathers, and saw corruption; ³⁷ But, he whom God hath raised, did not see corruption.

²⁷ Because thou wilt not abandon my soul unto hades, neither wilt thou give thy man of lovingkindness to see corruption;

² And be not configuring yourselves unto this age, but be transforming yourselves by the renewing of your mind, to the end ye may be proving what is the thing willed by God––the good and acceptable and perfect.

² I know thy works, and thy toil, and endurance, and that thou canst not bear bad men, and thou hast tried them who were affirming themselves to be apostles, and they were not, and hast found them false;

²¹ That, creation itself also, shall be freed––from the bondage of the decay into the freedom of the glory of the sons of God;

¹³ For, such as these, are false apostles, deceitful workers, transfiguring themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no marvel! for, Satan himself, doth transfigure himself into a messenger of light! ¹⁵ No great thing, therefore, if, his ministers also, are transfiguring themselves as ministers of righteousness!––whose end, shall be according to their works.

⁴ Through which, his precious, and very great, promises, have, unto us, been given, in order that, through these, ye might become sharers in a divine nature––escaping the corruption that is in the world by coveting.

⁸ Because, he that soweth into his own flesh, out of the flesh, shall reap corruption, whereas, he that soweth into the Spirit, out of the Spirit, shall reap age–abiding life.

¹⁹ Promising, freedom to them, they themselves, being all the while, slaves of corruption,––for, by whom one hath been defeated, by the same, hath he become enslaved,––