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.

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

Moreover, anything so equivocal as incorruption, cannot be adduced as a proof in so serious a matter as this.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

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

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