Luke 20:38
For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou hast said well.
Cross References
Psalms 16:5The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.
Psalms 145:1Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
John 11:25Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:
Romans 6:10For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:
Romans 14:7For none of us liveth to himself; and no man dieth to himself.
2 Corinthians 13:4For although he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him: but we shall live with him by the power of God towards 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 →