²⁵ The answer is this: when the dead rise, they won’t be married or given in marriage. They’ll be like the messengers in heaven, who are not united with one another in marriage. ²⁶ But how can you fail to see the truth of resurrection? Don’t you remember in the Book of Moses how God talked to Moses out of a burning bush and what God said to him then? “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”^[a] “I am,” God said. Not “I was.” ²⁷ So God is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are sadly mistaken.