For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
Parallel translations
- KJV Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
- 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.
- NKJV nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
- NASB for they cannot even die anymore, for they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
- NLT And they will never die again. In this respect they will be like angels. They are children of God and children of the resurrection.
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Quick answer
The resurrected cannot die again; like the angels, they are immortal children of God and children of the resurrection.
Overview
Because death is abolished, the earthly need for marriage to continue the human line is gone. Believers become 'like the angels' in their deathlessness, not in becoming sexless or losing identity. Their status as 'children of God' is confirmed and consummated in resurrection, secured by Christ who is the firstfruits of those who rise.
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Cross-references · 19
- Rev 21:4He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
- Phil 3:21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
- Matt 22:30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.
- 1 Cor 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.
- Rev 20:6Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
- Rev 22:9He said to me, “See you don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
- Rom 8:17–23and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
- Mark 12:25For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
- 1 Jn 3:1–2See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
- 1 Cor 15:26The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
- Isa 25:8He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
- Rev 7:9–12After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
- Rev 22:2–5in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
- Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
- 1 Th 4:13–17But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
- Rev 5:6–14I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
- Zech 3:7“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
- 1 Cor 15:49As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.
- 1 Cor 15:52–54in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
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