Luke 20:36

And death has no more power over them, for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being of those who will come back from the dead.

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Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

In Context

35But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

37But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

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Cross References

Hosea 13:14I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

Matthew 22:30For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

Romans 8:17And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.

1 Corinthians 15:42So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

1 Corinthians 15:52In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

1 Thessalonians 4:13But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

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 →

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