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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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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For when they shall ryse agayne from deeth they nether mary nor are maryed: but are as the angels which are in heven.
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For when they shall rise againe from the dead, neither men marry, nor wiues are married, but are as the Angels which are in heauen.
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- Luke 20:35-36 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
- Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.
- 1 John 3:2 Beloved, 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.
- Hebrews 12:22-23 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
- 1 Corinthians 15:42-54 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body. So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly. Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 25 For when they shall rise from the dead,…
25 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.
Ver. 25. {See Trapp on "Mat 22:30"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He is not the God of the dead,.... This…
He is not the God of the dead,.... This is our Lord's reasoning upon the passage; showing from hence, that since God is the God of these persons, they must be now alive in their souls, for God is not the God of the dead; and that their bodies must rise again, or he will not be the God of their whole persons;
but the God, of the living: the word "God", in this clause, is omitted in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, but retained in the Persic and Ethiopic versions; See Gill on Mat 22:32;
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ye therefore do greatly err; signifying, that it was not a slight mistake, an error of small importance, but a very great one; inasmuch as it was contrary to the Scriptures, and derogated from the power of God, and destroyed that covenant interest, which God has in his people, and particularly in the principal men of their nation, who were the fathers and founders of them.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain When they rise from the dead, neither men marry…
When they rise from the dead, neither men marry nor women are given in marriage.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. Are as the angels — Their bodies are…
25. Are as the angels — Their bodies are divested of their earthly grossness and become ethereal and glorious. As none are born in heaven, so none are married. The appetites of the body, and all the affection thereon founded, cease. The love in heaven may be the continuance of love on earth. It will doubtless often exist between the same parties. But it will be purer, more blissful, and glorious.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. when they shall rise] Had they known the…
25. when they shall rise] Had they known the power of God they could not have imagined that it was limited by death, or that the life of “the children of the resurrection” was a mere repetition of man’s present mortal existence. Compare the argument of St Paul in 1Co_15:39-44, based on the endless variety of the creative power of God.
as the angels] The Sadducees denied not only the Resurrection, but the existence also of angels and spirits (Act_23:8). In His reply, therefore, our Lord embraces the whole area of their unbelief. He refers to the angels in heaven as persons, whose personal existence was a fact. Moreover in these words we have one of the few revelations which He was pleased to make as to the state after death. They imply that, as St Paul teaches, at the Resurrection “we shall be changed” (1Co_15:44), and the “spiritual body” will not be liable to the passions of the “natural body.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain But are as angels in heaven not "the angels;"…
But are as angels in heaven not "the angels;" the oi is omitted. The blessed, after the resurrection, will be like angels as to purity, as to a spiritual life, as to immortality, as to happiness and glory. There will be no necessity for marriages in heaven. Here, on earth, the father dies, but he lives on in his children after death. In heaven there is no death, but every one will live and be blessed for ever; and therefore it is that St. Luke adds here, "Neither can they die any more." St. Augustine says, "Marriages are on account of children; children on account of succession; succession on account of death. But in heaven, as there is no death, neither is there any marriage."
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain from the dead Lit. from amongst; cf., Php 3:11…
from the dead Lit. from amongst; cf., Php 3:11 Here it is the first resurrection. (See Scofield "1Co 15:52").
angels (See Scofield "Heb 1:4").
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