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.

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.

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

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