Mark 12:25

When people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married; but they are as 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

24“Is not the reason of your mistake,” answered Jesus, “your ignorance of the scriptures and of the power of God?

26“As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, 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 at the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but all who rise are as angels in heaven.

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 John 3:2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is that, when it is revealed, we will be like him, because we will 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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