Mark 12:25

For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 this the cause of your error," replied Jesus-- "your ignorance alike of the Scriptures and of the power of God?

26But as to the dead, that they rise to life, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God said to him, `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, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:42It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;

1 John 3:2Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall 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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