# G5351 φθείρω

φθείρω (phtheírō), Strong’s G5351: properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (generally) to ruin (especially figuratively, by moral influences, to deprave) KJV: corrupt…

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*phtheírō* — properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (generally) to ruin (especially figuratively, by moral influences, to deprave)

KJV: corrupt (self), defile, destroy

Occurs 21 times.

## Where it occurs
- [1 Corinthians 3:17](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/3?v=17) — If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
- [1 Corinthians 15:33](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/15?v=33) — Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
- [2 Corinthians 7:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/7?v=2) — Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
- [2 Corinthians 11:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/11?v=3) — But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Havah in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from…
- [Ephesians 4:22](https://besorah.bible/besorah/ephesians/4?v=22) — that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
- [Judah 1:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/judah/1?v=10) — But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=27) — For that which was not destroyed by fire, melted away when it was simply warmed by a faint sunbeam,