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36 For they cannot die again, but they are [a]angel-like and [b]equal to angels. And being sons of and [c]sharers in the resurrection, they are sons of God.

37 But that the dead are raised [[d]from death]—even Moses made known and showed in the passage concerning the [burning] bush, where he calls the Lord, The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.(A)

38 Now He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all men are alive [whether in the body or out of it] and they are alive [not dead] unto Him [in definite relationship to Him].

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  1. Luke 20:36 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  2. Luke 20:36 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
  3. Luke 20:36 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  4. Luke 20:37 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

36 and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children,(A) since they are children of the resurrection. 37 But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’[a](B) 38 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”

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  1. Luke 20:37 Exodus 3:6