Mark 12:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.

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  • Rom 14:9 : 9 For this reason Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Rom 4:17 : 17 As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.
  • Heb 3:10 : 10 Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart; and they have not known My ways.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly, if they had called to mind that country from which they had come, they might have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
  • Prov 19:27 : 27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.
  • Mark 12:24 : 24 Jesus answered and said to them, 'Are you not mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

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