Matthew 22:30

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

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  • Luke 20:34-36 : 34 So Jesus said to them,“The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35 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. 36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.
  • Mark 12:24-25 : 24 Jesus said to them,“Aren’t you deceived for this reason, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
  • Matt 24:38 : 38 For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.
  • Luke 17:27 : 27 People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage– right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
  • John 5:28-29 : 28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 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.
  • 1 Cor 7:29-31 : 29 And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none, 30 those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions, 31 those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
  • Ps 103:20 : 20 Praise the LORD, you angels of his, you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees and obey his orders!
  • Zech 3:7 : 7 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘If you follow my ways and keep my requirements, you will be able to preside over my temple and attend to my courtyards, and I will allow you to come and go among these others who are standing by you.
  • Matt 13:43 : 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 The Parable of the Lost Sheep“See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
  • Rev 5:9-9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation. 10 You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” 11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels in a circle around the throne, as well as the living creatures and the elders. Their number was ten thousand times ten thousand– thousands times thousands–
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 So I threw myself down at his feet to worship him, but he said,“Do not do this! I am only a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

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  • Mark 12:22-26
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    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.

    26Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

  • Luke 20:33-37
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    88%

    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.

    35But 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.

    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 22:31
    83%

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

  • Matt 22:28-29
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    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.

  • Matt 19:4-7
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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.”

    7They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”

  • 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!”

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

  • Mark 10:6-11
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    6But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.

    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

    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.”

    10In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.

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

  • Matt 22:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1The Parable of the Wedding Banquet Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:

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

  • Luke 20:27-30
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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

  • Acts 23:8
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    8(For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)

  • 1 Cor 7:27-29
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    68%

    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 22:23-25
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    23Marriage and the Resurrection The same day Sadducees(who say there is no resurrection) came to him and asked him,

    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.

  • Eph 5:31-32
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    67%

    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
    66%

    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.

  • 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.”

  • 1 Cor 7:9
    66%

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

  • Ezek 44:22
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    22They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

  • Mark 13:32
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    32Be Ready!“But as for that day or hour no one knows it– neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son– except the Father.

  • Heb 13:4
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    4Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

  • 1 Cor 7:38
    66%

    38So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

  • Heb 2:5
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    5Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.