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Apollumi

Did You Know That in the New Testament, Perishing Rarely Refers to Eternal Condemnation? 

November 25, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Pet 3:9, Apollumi, Luke 13:3, Perish
In my book The Ten Most Misunderstood Words in the Bible, I discuss the word lost, from the Greek word apollumi. The NKJV translates it as lost thirteen times. However, it is translated as perish more than twice as often (twenty-nine times) and is translated as destroy/destroyed twice as often (twenty-six times). Other translations include ruined–three times, lose–fourteen times, and die–once.  In Ten Words, I demonstrated that apollumi refers to eternal condemnation only 10% of the time. However, I was speaking of 10% of
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