Mark 12:25

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like 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 answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God?

26But about the dead, that they are raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moses about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘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 they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

1 John 3:2Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just 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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