25 For when they rise(A) from the dead,(B) they neither marry nor are given in marriage(C) but are like angels(D) in heaven. 26 And as for the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him: I(E) am the God of Abraham(F) and the God of Isaac(G) and the God of Jacob?[a](H) 27 He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken.”

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Footnotes

  1. 12:26 Ex 3:6,15–16

25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

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