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"Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruption" (Eph. 6: 24).
"Shed light on life and incorruption" (II Tim. 1: 10).
"In doctrine showing uncorruptness" (Titus 2: 7).
The four occurrences of aphthartos in Paul's epistles are as follows:
"Changed the glory of the incorruptible God" (Rom. 1: 23).
"Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible" (I Cor. 9: 25).
"The dead shall be raised incorruptible' (I Cor. 15: 52).
"Now unto the King eternal, incorruptible, invisible" (I Tim. 1: 17).
We observe that in I Timothy both words are used. In chapter 1: 17 we have the
word "incorruptible" and in chapter 6: 16 the word "immortal"; while in both passages
we have the statement that God is invisible. Between these two passages we have the
wonderful statement that "God was manifest in the flesh" (I Tim. 3: 16). He Who is
invisible has shown Himself to man. He is and ever must be incorruptible. And so we
read:
"He Whom God raised again, saw no corruption" (Acts 13: 37).
He ever lives, to die no more. Death hath no more dominion over Him, and He will
one day show Who is that blessed and only Potentate, King of kings and Lord of lords,
Who only hath immortality.
The resurrection figures prominently in Paul's testimony before his various judges.
In Acts 23:, before the High Priest, he says:
"I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am
called in question" (Acts 23: 6).
Before Felix, he says:
"I . . . . . have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, there shall be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust" (Acts 24: 15).
"Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day"
(Acts 24: 21).
Before Agrippa, Paul's testimony is the same:
"Certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was
dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive" (Acts 25: 19).
"And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our
fathers: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope
to come. For which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it
be a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" (Acts 26: 6-8).
In chapter 17: we again find the thought of resurrection emphasized:
"Because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection" (Acts 17: 18).