Mark 12:27

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 14:9 : 9 For to this end Christ died, 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." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
  • Heb 3:10 : 10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;'
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
  • Prov 19:27 : 27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
  • Mark 12:24 : 24 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

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