Biblical Concept: Corrupt

 

Findings:

Note the many comments following most verses and passages. The following, from them, are note worthy:

The two most significant Bible verses in the study.  Always be striving to meet these:  (I could intellectually make a case that Genesis 6:11-12 deserves a place on the most significant list. It will stand well on its own.) 

NAS 2 Peter 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. (World, lust, corruption relationship.) (Corruption is natural to the world system.) (Escape the world system of corruption: Precious and magnificent promises, partakers of the divine nature.)

 

NAS Ephesians 4:22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, (Corruption needs an attitude of improvement.) (Ephesians 4:20-25  20 But you did not learn Christ in this way,  21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,  22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,  23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,  24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.  25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.)

 

Corrupt = the mayhem of angelic and human volition.

Corruption is natural to the human condition. (A most repeated theme.)

Relationship: Atheism, fool, corrupt, abomination.

Relationship: stubborn, rebellious, talebearer, corrupt.

Flesh corruption relationship.

False teachers corruption relationship.

Pride corrupt relationship.

Corrupted angels corrupt humans.

Corruption needs an attitude of improvement.

Corrupt pagan religion.

Harlot Babylon: Satan’s culmination of corruption for the earth.

Corrupt pagan socio-political-economic religion.

With Satan’s help, corruption is a natural human condition.

Religious corruption.

Love incorruptible for Jesus.

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Corrupt

NAS Genesis 6:11-12  11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

 

Situation: Post fall, pre flood. 

Situation: Angelic influences - Genesis 3:1-7; lies, temptation, deception. Genesis 3:14-15; Angelic oppression of women and children. Genesis 6:2-4, Angelic genetic corruption of the human species. Note below: Ezekiel 28:17, Corrupted angels corrupt humans. Compare Jude 6-7 and 2 Peter 2:4-5.

Situation: Humanity obtained a nature to sin. See Genesis 3:7 and 4:6-7.  See 1 John 3:12 for a possible Satanic influence on Cain.

Corrupt = the mayhem of angelic and human volition. Corruption is quite natural to the human condition.

Note Genesis 6:5-6.  Also, see Genesis 6:5-6 in Biblical Concept: The Linear Aspect of God.

Findings: What a situation humans are born into!  Attacked by angels.  Attacked by a nature to sin.  Add: parental circumstances, sibling circumstances, family circumstances, relatives, local and national circumstances, friends and acquaintances, employment circumstances, religious circumstances—what a situation humans are born into!   Kudos to humans who overcome corruption through faith and spiritual growth in the Lord Jesus Christ—good volitional job! (Ephesians 4:22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,) (2 Peter 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.)

 

NAS Job 15:16 How much less one who is detestable and corrupt, Man, who drinks iniquity like water! (For Eliphaz’ words: Job 42:7  7 And it came about after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.)

 

 34 "For the company of the godless is barren, And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt. (For Eliphaz’ words: Job 42:7  7 And it came about after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.)

 

NAS Psalm 14:1 For the choir director. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good. 2 The LORD has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, To see if there are any who understand, Who seek after God. 3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one.  (Relationship: Atheism, fool, corrupt, abomination.) (Corrupt, foolish, atheistic, governments killed over 200 million souls from 1900 to 1999. Source: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills a Freedom, Democracy, Peace, Power, Democide, and War Webpage.) (At the time of this writing, we have lived through a period of growing Democratic governments and a sharp drop in murder by government—democide.  Now the Democratic governments are morphing into Socialistic Democracies that are taxing their citizens into subservience. A more civilized form of corruption / theft.) (Untold amounts of human talent have been thwarted by atheism--Corruption is natural to the human condition.)   

 

NAS Psalm 53:1 For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God," They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice; There is no one who does good.  2 God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, To see if there is anyone who understands, Who seeks after God. 3 Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one. (Relationship: Atheism, abominable injustice, corrupt.) (Here is abominable / abhor in another justice context: Amos 5:10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.) (Abominable and abhor are the same Hebrew word: b[;T' / ta’av.) (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS Jeremiah 6:28 All of them are stubbornly rebellious, Going about as a talebearer. They are bronze and iron; They, all of them, are corrupt. (Relationship: stubborn, rebellious, talebearer, corrupt.) (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS Ezekiel 20:44 "Then you will know that I am the LORD when I have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel," declares the Lord God.'" (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS Ezekiel 23:11 "Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister. (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS Daniel 2:9 that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only one decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt words before me until the situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, that I may know that you can declare to me its interpretation."

 

NAS Zephaniah 3:7 "I said, 'Surely you will revere Me, Accept instruction.' So her dwelling will not be cut off According to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they were eager to corrupt all their deeds. (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS 2 Peter 2:10 and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties, (Flesh corruption relationship.) (False teachers corruption relationship.)

 

Corrupted

 

NAS Genesis 6:12 And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS Exodus 32:7 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS Ezekiel 28:17 "Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, That they may see you. (Pride corrupt relationship.)  (Corrupted angels corrupt humans.)

 

NAS Malachi 2:8 "But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by the instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of hosts. (Corrupt priests.) (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS 2 Corinthians 7:2 Make room for us in your hearts; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.

 

NAS Ephesians 4:22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, (Corruption needs an attitude of improvement.) (Ephesians 4:20-25  20 But you did not learn Christ in this way,  21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,  22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,  23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,  24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.  25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.)

 

Corruptible

 

NAS Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. (Corrupt pagan religion.)

 

Corrupting

 

NAS Revelation 19:2 because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her." (See Revelation 18.)  (Harlot Babylon: Satan’s culmination of corruption for the earth.) (Corrupt pagan socio-political-economic religion.) (With Satan’s help, corruption is a natural human condition.)

 

Corruption

 

NAS Leviticus 22:25 nor shall you accept any such from the hand of a foreigner for offering as the food of your God; for their corruption is in them, they have a defect, they shall not be accepted for you.'" (Corrupt offering.)

 

NAS Daniel 6:4 Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to government affairs; but they could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him. (Daniel: A non-corrupt political official.)

 

NAS Romans 8:21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. (Creation: slavery to the corruption of the second law of thermal dynamics.  Part of the Genesis 3:17 curse after the fall of humanity.)

NAS Galatians 6:8 For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life. (Flesh corruption relationship.) (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS 2 Peter 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. (World, lust, corruption relationship.) (Corruption is natural to the world system.) (Escape the world system of corruption: Precious and magnificent promises, partakers of the divine nature.)

 

NAS 2 Peter 2:19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. (False teachers corruption relationship.)

 

Corruptly

 

NAS Deuteronomy 4:16 lest you act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (Corrupt pagan religion.)

 

 25 "When you become the father of children and children's children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God so as to provoke Him to anger, (Corrupt pagan religion.)

 

NAS Deuteronomy 9:12 "Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.' (Corrupt pagan religion.)

 

NAS Deuteronomy 31:29 "For I know that after my death you will act corruptly and turn from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, for you will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of your hands." (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS Deuteronomy 32:5 "They have acted corruptly toward Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation. (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS Judges 2:19 But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways. (Corrupt pagan religion.)

 

NAS 2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. (Religious corruption.)

 

NAS 2 Chronicles 27:2 And he did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; however he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people continued acting corruptly. (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS Nehemiah 1:7 "We have acted very corruptly against Thee and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which Thou didst command Thy servant Moses. (Religious corruption.)

 

NAS Isaiah 1:4 Alas, sinful nation, People weighed down with iniquity, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have turned away from Him. (Corruption is natural to the human condition.) (Religious corruption.)

 

NAS Ezekiel 16:47 "Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they. (Corruption is natural to the human condition.) (Corrupt pagan religion.)

 

Corrupts

NAS Ecclesiastes 7:7 For oppression makes a wise man mad, And a bribe corrupts the heart. (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

NAS 1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." (Corruption is natural to the human condition.)

 

Incorruptible

NAS Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. (Corrupt pagan religion.)

 

NAS Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with a love incorruptible. (Love incorruptible for Jesus. Well done Ephesians.)

 

 

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