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Perishable (5349) (phthartos from phtheiro = to destroy from phthino = waste) is that which is subject to corruption, rot, withering, decay or decomposition. The basic idea is that which is short lived, or that which has a brief life or significance.
In Romans 1:23 phthartos means mortal or degenerating man. In the passages (below) from Corinthians we see that which is perishable belongs to this life and to the unresurrected, whereas the imperishable is equated with a new life and immortality.
Phthartos is used 6 times in the (Ro; 1Cor 3x; 1 Pet 2x) and is translated: corruptible, 1; perishable, 3; perishable things, 1; which is perishable, 1. Phthartos is used in the Lxx in Isaiah 54:17.
Romans 1:23 (note) 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.
1 Corinthians 9:25 And everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
1 Corinthians 15:53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory.
1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,
1 Peter 1:23 (note) for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding word of God.
The words “silver” and “gold” are in a diminutive form, referring to little silver and gold coins. Both silver & gold were commonly used to purchase slaves. The price of a slave in the Roman Empire varied from 700,000 to 200 sesertii (a worker in Rome could earn about 3 sesertii per day)
FROM YOU FUTILE WAY OF LIFE: ek tes mataias umon anastrophes: (Ps 39:6; 62:10; 1Co 3:20 Jer 2:5; Acts 14:15 cp Eph 4:17 See Torrey's Topic of "Vanity" & Naves Topic of "Vanity" for what God considers "futile")
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