incorruption

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

He tells us in the Bible that these bodies which are buried in corruption shall be raised in incorruption, and that these mortal bodies shall put on immortality.

From With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul by Stall, Sylvanus

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 God has given us a law and holy commandments; and every one who keeps these can be saved, and obtaining the resurrection, can inherit incorruption.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen