And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls (phialas | φιάλας | acc pl fem) full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption (phthoras | φθορᾶς | gen sg fem); for by whatever a man is overcome, to this he is enslaved.

But these people, like irrational animals, born creatures of instinct to be captured and destroyed (phthoran | φθοράν | acc sg fem), are ignorant of those whom they slander, and in their destruction (phthora | φθορᾷ | dat sg fem) will themselves also be destroyed,

by means of which he has freely given to us his precious and splendid promises, so that through them you may escape the corruption (phthoras | φθορᾶς | gen sg fem) that is in the world caused by sinful desire and become partakers of the divine nature.

These are all destined to perish (phthoran | φθοράν | acc sg fem) with use, based as they are on human commands and teachings. human

For the one who sows to his own flesh, from the flesh will reap corruption (phthoran | φθοράν | acc sg fem); but the one who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Now this I declare, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable (phthora | φθορά | nom sg fem) inherit the imperishable.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a perishable (phthora | φθορᾷ | dat sg fem) state, it is raised imperishable.

that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay (phthoras | φθορᾶς | gen sg fem) into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Therefore, having put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy (phthonous | φθόνους | acc pl masc) and slander of every kind,