Luke 20:36

nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God’s children.

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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, for those who are thought worthy to attain to that other world and the resurrection from the dead, there is no marrying or being married,

37As to the fact that the dead rise, even Moses indicated that, in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord – ‘The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

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Cross References

Hosea 13:14Should I deliver them from the power of Sheol? Should I redeem them from death? Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your pestilence? Compassion is forever hidden from my eyes.

Matthew 22:30For at the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but all who rise are as angels in heaven.

Romans 8:17and if children, then heirs – heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, since we share Christ’s sufferings in order that we may also share his glory.

1 Corinthians 15:42It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. Sown a mortal body, it rises immortal; sown disfigured, it rises beautiful;

1 Corinthians 15:52at the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, will be transformed.

1 Thessalonians 4:13We don’t want you to be ignorant, friends, about those who have passed to their rest. We don’t want you to grieve like other people 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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