The Bible makes clear that our ultimate separation from “corruption” (phthora) will come only with the resurrection of the body. Peter uses the word in this eschatological sense in 2 Peter 2:10; and this may be what he means by the phrase “escape the corruption in the world.”9 But the reference to “evil desires” at the end of the verse, along with Peter’s focus on godliness in this passage, suggests rather that escaping corruption has to do with the renouncing of sin in this life.10 Note that Peter
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