Luke 20:38
Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
In Context
39And some of the scholars having answered, they said, Teacher, thou said well.
Cross References
Psalms 16:5LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Thou maintain my lot.
Psalms 145:1I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name forever and ever.
John 11:25Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he died, he will live.
Romans 6:10For that he died, he died to sin once, but that he lives, he lives to God.
Romans 14:7For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.
2 Corinthians 13:4For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.
Matthew Henry on Luke 20:28-39
The Cavil of the Sadducees. 27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, 28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. 31 And the third took her; and in like… Read the whole commentary →