Mark 12:25

For whenever they rise from among the dead, neither do they marry nor are they given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

In Context

24Jesus answered and said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?

26But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in connection with the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘ I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

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Cross References

Matthew 22:30For in the resurrection neither do they marry, nor are they given in marriage, but they are like angels of God in heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.

1 John 3:2Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

Matthew Henry on Mark 12:19-28

The Question of the Sadducees. 18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. 21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. 22 And the seven had her, and… Read the whole commentary →

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