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.

These mortals shall put on immortality, and these corruptible bodies shall put on incorruption; and then the souls and the bodies of all shall be reunited, never again to be separated throughout all eternity.

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

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

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

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