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

English Standard Version
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
for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

King James Bible
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
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
Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God's children.

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.

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.

Commentaries
Matthew Henry's 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,

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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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