Luke 20:34-36
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
34 Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage; 35 but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.[a]
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- 20:36 Because they are the ones who will rise: literally, “being sons of the resurrection.”
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