Mark 12:27

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Mark 12:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.

26 But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

28 Now one of the scribes had come up and heard their debate. Noticing how well Jesus had answered them, he asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

29 Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Romans 4:17

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Romans 14:9

For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

Hebrews 11:13

All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Hebrews 11:14

Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

Hebrews 11:15

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

Hebrews 11:16

Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

Mark 12:24

Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

Proverbs 19:27

If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Hebrews 3:10

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’