Luke 20:36

Because they cannot die anymore, being like angels—they are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

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In The King James Version

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 who are considered worthy to attain to that age, to the resurrection from among the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage.

37But that the dead are raised, Moses indeed revealed about the Bush when he recorded: ‘The Lord, 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 they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

Romans 8:17—if children, also heirs: heirs of God and coheirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him).

1 Corinthians 15:42The resurrection of the dead is like that: the body is ‘planted’ in deterioration and it is raised in incorruptibility;

1 Corinthians 15:52—in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

1 Thessalonians 4:13Now then, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who have ‘fallen asleep’, so that you do not grieve like the rest, who have no 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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