incorruption

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He called the common resurrection, regeneration, at which our bodies will be regenerated to incorruption, that is to eternity.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

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

"Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption."

From Parables of the Christ-life by Trotter, I. Lilias

It was sown in corruption, little by little laying her low; but it shall be raised in incorruption, no more to be silenced by disease, or to give up through decay of strength. 

From The Blessed Hope A Sermon on the death of Mrs. Francis Cunningham by Hoare, Edward N.