38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: …
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. …
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. …
For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. …
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-38)This discourse with the Sadducees we had before, just as it is here, only that the description Christ gives of the future state is somewhat more full and large here. Observe here, I. In every age there have been men of corrupt minds, that have endeavoured to subvert the fundamental principles of revealed religion. As there are deists now, who call themselves free -thinkers, but are really false -t…
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