Mark 12:25 “When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage.…”

Mark 12:25

When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For when they shall rise againe from the dead, neither men marry, nor wiues are married, but are as the Angels which are in heauen.

Darby Translation

For when they rise from among [the] dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels [who are] in the heavens.

Young's Literal Translation

for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.

Bible in Basic English

When they come back from the dead, they do not get married, but are like the angels in heaven.

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Cross references

“but”

Matthew 22:30 1 John 3:2 1 Corinthians 15:42–54 Luke 20:35 Luke 20:36 Hebrews 12:22

Matthew 22:30 · BSB

In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.

1 John 3:2 · BSB

Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

1 Corinthians 15:42–54 · BSB

So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.

Luke 20:35 · BSB

But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

Luke 20:36 · BSB

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.

Hebrews 12:22 · BSB

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

26But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ?

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