Mark 12:27

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[So], He is not God to those who are dead, but [He is] God to those who are alive. You are seriously mistaken.”

Cross References

Matthew 22:29

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken [in your reasoning], not knowing [what] the Scriptures [teach] or [how much] power God has.

Matthew 22:32

‘I am Abraham’s God, and Isaac’s God and Jacob’s God.’ [So], He is not God to those who are [physically] dead, but [He is] God to those who are [still] alive.”

Mark 12:24

Jesus said to them, “Is not this the reason that you are [so] mistaken, that you do not know [what] the Scriptures [teach] or [how much] power God has?

Luke 20:38

So, He is not God to those who are dead, but [He is] God to those who are alive, for to God, all people are alive.”

Romans 14:9

For this is the reason that Christ died and [now] lives again, so that He could be Lord of both those who have [already] died and those who are [still] alive.

Romans 4:17

just as it is written [Gen. 17:5], “I [i.e., God] have made you [i.e., Abraham] forefather of many nations.” He received this promise in the presence of God, in whom he believed, and who gives life [back] to dead people and who refers to things [promised] as though they were [already] fulfilled.

Hebrews 3:10

Therefore, I was angry with that generation of people and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they did not understand my ways.’