Luke 20:35

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But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

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  • Dan 12:2-3 : 2 Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake– some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. 3 But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.
  • 2 Thess 1:5 : 5 Encouragement in Persecution This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.
  • John 5:29 : 29 and will come out– the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.
  • Acts 24:15 : 15 I have a hope in God(a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
  • Matt 12:32 : 32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
  • Mark 12:24 : 24 Jesus said to them,“Aren’t you deceived for this reason, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God?
  • Matt 22:29 : 29 Jesus answered them,“You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.
  • Heb 11:35 : 35 and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.
  • Rev 3:4 : 4 But you have a few individuals in Sardis who have not stained their clothes, and they will walk with me dressed in white, because they are worthy.

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  • Luke 20:27-34
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    27Marriage and the Resurrection Now some Sadducees(who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

    28They asked him,“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

    29Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.

    30The second

    31and then the third married her, and in this same way all seven died, leaving no children.

    32Finally the woman died too.

    33In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

    34So Jesus said to them,“The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

  • Matt 22:27-31
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    88%

    27Last of all, the woman died.

    28In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”

    29Jesus answered them,“You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.

    30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

    31Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,

  • Mark 12:18-25
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    18Marriage and the Resurrection Sadducees(who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,

    19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us:‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

    20There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

    21The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.

    22None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.

    23In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”

    24Jesus said to them,“Aren’t you deceived for this reason, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God?

    25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

  • Luke 20:36-37
    2 verses
    84%

    36In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

    37But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

  • Matt 19:10
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    10The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”

  • Luke 18:29-30
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    29Then Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdom

    30who will not receive many times more in this age– and in the age to come, eternal life.”

  • Matt 19:4-6
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    4He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • 1 Cor 7:27-29
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    27The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

    28But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

    29And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

  • Matt 22:24-25
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    24“Teacher, Moses said,‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

  • Mark 10:8-9
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    8and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • Rev 20:5-6
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    5(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection.

    6Blessed and holy is the one who takes part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

  • 1 Cor 15:50
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    50Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

  • 1 Cor 7:38
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    38So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

  • 1 Cor 7:8-9
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    8To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

    9But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

  • Luke 16:18
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    18“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

  • Eph 5:31-32
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    31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

  • Matt 5:32
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    32But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

  • Mark 10:11
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    11So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

  • Rom 7:3
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    3So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

  • Matt 22:2
    67%

    2“The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.