incorruption

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We must contemplate these pleasures as seriously as we do the pain of sense in the reprobate, only avoiding the introduction of anything gross or carnal, and, therefore, repugnant to a state of incorruption.

From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by Boudreaux, F. J.

Oh, would I could tell you how joyfully I shall put off corruption for incorruption, and exchange mortality for immortality!

From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality....

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory.

From Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. by Thornburgh, George