Mark 12:25

When the dead rise, they don't marry, and aren't given in marriage. They're like the angels in heaven.

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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 told them, “This proves you're mistaken, and that you don't know the Scriptures or the power of God.

26But concerning the resurrection, haven't you read in Moses' writings the story of the burning bush, where God spoke to Moses and told him, ‘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 people don't marry, and they aren't given in marriage either—they're like the angels in heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:42It's the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in decay; it is raised to last forever.

1 John 3:2My friends, we are already God's children; however what we shall become hasn't been revealed just yet. But we do know that when he appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really 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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