Strong's #5356: phthora (pronounced fthor-ah')

from 5351; decay, i.e. ruin (spontaneous or inflicted, literally or figuratively):--corruption, destroy, perish.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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phthora

1) corruption, destruction, perishing

1a) that which is subject to corruption, what is perishable

1b) in the Christian sense, eternal misery in hell

2) in the NT, in an ethical sense, corruption, i.e. moral decay

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G5351

Citing in TDNT: 9:93, 1259

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Romans 8:21: "from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty"
1 Corinthians 15:42: "dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:"
1 Corinthians 15:50: "inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption."
Galatians 6:8: "the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the"
Colossians 2:22: "Which all are to perish with the using;) after"
2 Peter 1:4: "of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through"
2 Peter 2:12: "made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that"
2 Peter 2:12: "they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;"
2 Peter 2:19: "they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome,"