Mark 12:27
“Hee is not the God of the dead, but the God of the liuing: yee therefore doe greatly erre.”
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Mark 12:27 Context
25For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are giuen in marriage: but are as the Angels which are in heauen. 26And as touching the dead, that they rise: haue ye not read in the booke of Moses, how in the bush God spake vnto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isahac, and the God of Iacob? 27Hee is not the God of the dead, but the God of the liuing: yee therefore doe greatly erre. 28¶ And one of the Scribes came, and hauing heard them reasoning together, and perceiuing that he had answered them well, asked him which is the first commandement of all. 29And Iesus answered him, The first of al the commandements is, Heare, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord:
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Other Translations for Mark 12:27
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
- King James Version
"He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err.
- American Standard Version (1901)
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.
- Basic English Bible
He is not the God of [the] dead, but of [the] living. *Ye* therefore greatly err.
- Darby Bible
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
- Webster's Bible
He is not the God of dead, but of living men. You are in grave error."
- Weymouth Bible
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."
- World English Bible
He is not God of deed men, but of lyuynge men; therfor ye erren myche.
- Wycliffe Bible
he is not the God of dead men, but a God of living men; ye then go greatly astray.'
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Mark 12:27
12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living - That is, (if the argument be proposed at length,) since the character of his being the God of any persons, plainly intimates a relation to them, not as dead, but as living; and since he cannot be said to be at present their God at all, if they are utterly dead; nor to be the God of human persons, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, consisting of souls and bodies, if their bodies were to abide in everlasting death; there must needs be a future state of blessedness, and a resurrection of the body to share with the soul in it.