incorruption

Example Sentences

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What I had seen was the point at which from corruption issues incorruption.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ancient Christian, inspired by the glorious doctrine of the resurrection, looked forward with ardent hope to the time when corruption should put on incorruption, and the mortal, immortality.

From The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by Anonymous

If Jesus, therefore, rose in this higher body, and appeared to his disciples, it was to lift them above fear of death by showing that this corruptible must put on incorruption.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

Through doubt the sensuous, which is the particular and visible, is ever becoming spiritualized; even this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.

It is mine in Christ to put on incorruption, and through a brief sleep to become clothed with immortal youth.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry