# φθείρω (phtheirō)

Strong’s G5351. 8 New Testament occurrences.

I corrupt, spoil, destroy, ruin.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/phtheiro-g5351

## Occurrences

- [1 Corinthians 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/3/17) — If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
- [1 Corinthians 15:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/15/33) — Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
- [2 Corinthians 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/7/2) — Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
- [2 Corinthians 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/11/3) — But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
- [Ephesians 4:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/4/22) — That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
- [2 Peter 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-peter/2/12) — But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own co…
- [Jude 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jude/1/10) — But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
- [Revelation 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/revelation/19/2) — For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of h…