Luke 20:36
Good News Translation
They will be like angels and cannot die. They are the children of God, because they have risen from death.

New Revised Standard Version
Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

Contemporary English Version
or die. They will be like the angels and will be God's children, because they have been raised to life.

New American Bible
They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither can they die any more for they are equal to the angels and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither can they die any more for they are equal to the angels and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

can.

Isaiah 25:8 He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Hosea 13:14 I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.

1 Corinthians 15:26,42,53,54 And the enemy, death, shall be destroyed last: For he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith: . . .

Philippians 3:21 Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. . . .

Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. In these the second death hath no power. But they shall be priests of God and of Christ: and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more. Nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away.

Revelation 22:2-5 In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the river, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits every month: the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations. . . .

they are.

Zechariah 3:7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my charge, thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt keep my courts, and I will give thee some of them that are now present here to walk with thee.

Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married, but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.

Mark 12:25 For when they shall rise again from the dead, they shall neither marry, nor be married, but are as the angels in heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:49,52 Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly. . . .

Revelation 5:6-14 And I saw: and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the ancients, a Lamb standing, as it were slain, having seven horns and seven eyes: which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. . . .

Revelation 7:9-12 After this, I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands. . . .

Revelation 22:9 And he said to me: See thou do it not. For I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets and of them that keep the words of the prophecy of this book. Adore God.

the children of God.

Romans 8:17-23 And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him. . . .

1 John 3:2 Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

Context
The Sadducees and the Resurrection
35But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world and of the resurrection from the dead shall neither be married nor take wives. 36Neither can they die any more for they are equal to the angels and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. 37Now that the dead rise again, Moses also shewed at the bush, when he called the Lord: The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.…
Cross References
Romans 8:16
For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.

1 John 3:1
Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.

1 John 3:2
Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

Luke 20:35
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