For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Shall the world venture the damnation of their souls for a poor corruptible crown, and shall not we venture the loss of a few trifles for an eternal crown?
When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass that saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
There is a naturall, or animall body, and there is a body spirituall: he will raise up the spirituall body incorruptible; To this relates the Fire, to the corruptible Salt.
For this corruptiblemust put on incorruption, and this mortall must put on immortality.
But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.
Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: 1:19.
Cursed be the day that ever I hearkened to the counsel of the wicked, and that ever I pleased this corruptible flesh, to the utter undoing of my soul!
Riches are nothing but plentiful provision for tempting, corruptible flesh.
And what is this sordid, corruptible flesh, that its desires and pleasures should call down my soul, and tempt it to neglect my God?
So when this corruptibleshall 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.
Yea, my Lord and my Comfort, Who didst put on corruptible flesh for my wretched sake: deliver me from wretchedness and bring comfort to my wretched soul.
Put not your hope in corruptible wealth, my soul, nor in things unjustly gathered.
Only the corruptible and mortal part of him perishes in the flames: all that is incorruptible and immortal of him will survive the purer and stronger for being freed from the contagion of baser elements.
Greek writers from Herodotus to Plutarch dwell with complacency on the magnanimity of a people who cared for nothing but honour and were content to struggle for a corruptible crown.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
And as among all beings he alone partakes of the corruptible and incorruptible, so alone among all beings he is ordained to a double end, whereof the one is his end as corruptible, the other as incorruptible.
Man, he tells us, is the only creature who partakes at once of the corruptible and incorruptible nature; "and since every nature is ordained to some ultimate end, it follows that the end of man is double.
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.
Now, by a corruptible crown is meant one that, like this crown made of leaves, will fade and fall to pieces, and decay, and thus pass entirely away.
Footnote 561] But let that which is unworthy, be set down to human insufficiency, 'for the corruptiblebody presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
For either it should be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good: or a corruptible substance; which unless it were good, could not be corrupted.
So, says Paul, praising the effort and contemning the prize, 'They do it to obtain a corruptible crown.
He, as it were, points to his own body when he says, recurring to his former thought of the necessity of harmony between organism and environment, 'this corruptible must put on incorruption.
They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; we do not do it, though we professedly have an incorruptible one as our aim and object.
For this corruptiblemust put on incorruptibility: and this mortal must put on immortality.
When this corruptible hath put on incorruptibility: and this mortal hath put on immortality: then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is consumed into victory.
And they do it to obtain a corruptible crown: but we to obtain an everlasting crown: I therefore so run, not as at an uncertain thing.
That body is appointed to a glorious condition; not a particle of the corruptible but what shall put on incorruption; of the mortal that shall not assume immortality.
It is best to simply hold by the great truth, that 'this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality.
The pure Elements of his creation were gradually mingled and infected with the corruptible elements of the outer world, and thus his body became more and more gross, and liable, through its grossness, to natural decay and death.
The continued use of corruptiblefood rendered their bodies more and more gross; and human life was soon reduced to a very brief span.
He said that the new birth and the new life, which lift man to God and fit him for heaven, are not begotten of the corruptible seed of man, but of God through the Word of his Truth, which liveth and abideth forever.
He bore a conqueror for a corruptible crown: she bore a conqueror for an incorruptible crown.
