For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Luke 20:36 in context
Luke 20:33–39
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Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”
35
But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
36
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For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
37
But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
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Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”
39
Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.”
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