Luke 20:38
but he is not God of [the] dead but of [the] living; for all live for him.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
In Context
39And some of the scribes answering said, Teacher, thou hast well spoken.
Cross References
Psalms 16:5Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms 145:1{A Psalm of praise. Of David.} I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
John 11:25Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;
Romans 6:10For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
Romans 14:7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
2 Corinthians 13:4for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)
Matthew Henry on Luke 20:28-39
The Cavil of the Sadducees. 27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, 28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. 31 And the third took her; and in like… Read the whole commentary →