At first glance, this scripture may seem at variance with another Book of Mormon passage about the resurrection. Alma taught of the resurrection and accompanying restoration as follows:
'And now behold, is the meaning of the word restoration to take a thing of a natural state and place it in an unnatural state, or to place it in a state opposite to its nature.
O, my son, this is not the case; but the meaning of the word restoration is to bring back again evil for evil, or carnal for carnal, or devilish for devilish' (Alma 41:13).
According to this scripture, one might think that corruption could only put on corruption again. However, Abinadi is speaking of the resurrection of the body when the mortal body becomes perfected. Corruption, in this sense, is the natural decay which the human body undergoes after death. This stench and decay will be renewed and perfected at the resurrection. Speaking of the body, Paul taught, this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality (1 Cor 15:53). So Abinadi and Paul are speaking of the perfection of the physical body.
On the other hand, Alma is speaking of the restoration of the spirit at the time of the resurrection. He is teaching that the same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to posses your body in that eternal world (Alma 34:34). Therefore, the righteous will still be righteous at that day, the wicked will still be wicked, and the lukewarm will still be lukewarm, For that which ye do send out shall return unto you again, and be restored; therefore the word restoration more fully condemneth the sinner, and justifieth him not at all (Alma 41:15).
Bruce R. McConkie
"Corruption is also used to signify the decay and change that will take place after death. Thus David recorded the Lord's promise that he would not suffer his Holy One to see corruption (Ps. 16:10), a promise amply fulfilled in Christ as both Peter (Acts 2:27) and Paul (Acts 13:30-37) testified.
"The term is further used with reference to the wicked, depraved, and dissolute acts of those who are steeped in iniquity. 'He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting,' Paul says (Gal. 6:8); and it is by thus sowing to the Spirit that the saints have 'escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.' (2 Pet. 1:4.)" (Mormon Doctrine, p. 163)