Mark 12:27

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 14:9 : 9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Rom 4:17 : 17 (as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.
  • Heb 3:10 : 10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth. 14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
  • Prov 19:27 : 27 If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
  • Mark 12:24 : 24 Jesus said to them,“Aren’t you deceived for this reason, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God?

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