Incorruptible

Usually translated “imperishable” and “immortal”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• imperishable 3
• immortal 2
• an imperishable 1
• of imperishable 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• 1 Peter 3
• 1 Corinthians 2
• Romans 1
• 1 Timothy 1

4 books in all.

• Romans 1:23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
• 1 Corinthians 9:25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
• 1 Corinthians 15:52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
• 1 Peter 1:4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
• 1 Peter 1:23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
• 1 Peter 3:4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “incorruptible” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.