Mark 12:25

For when people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage. Instead, they are like the angels in heaven.

Text-Critical English 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 them, “Is this not why you are in error, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?

26But as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to Moses, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

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Cross References

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

1 Corinthians 15:42So it is with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, but it is raised imperishable.

1 John 3:2Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. But we know that when he appears, 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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