Luke 20:36
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New International Version (©2011)
and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection.

New Living Translation (©2007)
And they will never die again. In this respect they will be like angels. They are children of God and children of the resurrection.

English Standard Version (©2001)
for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God's children.

NET Bible (©2006)
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
For neither can they die again, for they are like The Angels, and they are the children of God because they are the children of the resurrection.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
nor die anymore. They are the same as the angels. They are God's children who have come back to life.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

American King James Version
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

American Standard Version
for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Darby Bible Translation
for neither can they die any more, for they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

English Revised Version
for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Weymouth New Testament
For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels, and are sons of God through being sons of the Resurrection.

World English Bible
For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

Young's Literal Translation
for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:27-38 It is common for those who design to undermine any truth of God, to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the truth of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visible world, and a future unseen world; and let every one compare this world and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that which deserves them. Believers shall obtain the resurrection from the dead, that is the blessed resurrection. What shall be the happy state of the inhabitants of that world, we cannot express or conceive,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Neither can they die any more,.... Therefore there will be no need of marrying to procreate children, to keep up a succession of men, any more than there is among the angels:

for they are equal unto the angels; in spirituality, purity and immortality; See Gill on Matthew 22:30.

and are the children of God: as they are now by adopting grace; but, as yet, it does not appear as it will then, what they are and will be:

being the children of the resurrection; as Christ was declared to be the son of God by his resurrection, so will they appear to be the children of God by their resurrection to eternal life; for though others will rise, yet not to everlasting life, and thus appearing to be children of God, they will also be heirs of God, and enjoy the inheritance, which they will always live to possess in their persons; and therefore the case being different with them from the children of the world, they will not marry, nor be given in marriage, as they are.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

36. neither … die any more—Marriage is ordained to perpetuate the human family; but as there will be no breaches by death in the future state, this ordinance will cease.

equal—or "like."

unto the angels—that is, in the immortality of their nature.

children of God—not in respect of character but nature; "being the children of the resurrection" to an undecaying existence (Ro 8:21, 23). And thus the children of their Father's immortality (1Ti 6:16).

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Sadducees Question the Resurrection
…35But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. 37Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. …

Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.