Mark 12:27 “He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistak…”

Mark 12:27

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

God is not ye God of the dead, but the God of the liuing. Ye are therefore greatly deceiued.

Darby Translation

He is not the God of [the] dead, but of [the] living. Ye therefore greatly err.

Young's Literal Translation

he is not the God of dead men, but a God of living men; ye then go greatly astray.'

Bible in Basic English

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.

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Cross references

“is not”

Romans 14:9 Romans 4:17 Hebrews 11:13–16

Romans 14:9 · BSB

For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

Romans 4:17 · BSB

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Hebrews 11:13–16 · BSB

All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

“ye”

Mark 12:24 Hebrews 3:10 Proverbs 19:27

Mark 12:24 · BSB

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

Hebrews 3:10 · BSB

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

Proverbs 19:27 · BSB

If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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

In context

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’ ?

28Now one of the scribes had come up and heard their debate. Noticing how well Jesus had answered them, he asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

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