Luke 20:38

Green's Literal Translation

But He is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to Him.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
If death was the end, and there was no more, then dead people don't need a God. The Boss is God over the living, not the dead. These three great cowboys are alive with God today, not dead."

Legacy Standard Bible
Now He is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live to Him."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now He is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live to Him."

Bible in Basic English
Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.

Darby Translation
but he is not God of [the] dead but of [the] living; for all live for him.

New King James Version
For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him."

Christian Standard Bible®
He is not God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to Him."

World English Bible
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living; so that all live to him.

Weymouth's New Testament
He is not a God of dead, but of living men, for to Him are all living."

King James Version (1611)
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the liuing for all liue vnto him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But God is not a God of the deed but of the lyuynge, for they lyue all vnto him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for he is not the God of the dead, but of the living. they are all then alive with respect to him.

Amplified Bible
"Now He is not the God of the dead, but of the living [so these forefathers will be among the resurrected]; for all live [in a definite relationship] to Him."

American Standard Version
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Revised Standard Version
Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For he is not the God of the deed but of them which live. For all live in him.

Update Bible Version
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

New Century Version
God is the God of the living, not the dead, because all people are alive to him."

New English Translation
Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him."

Contemporary English Version
So the Lord isn't the God of the dead, but of the living. This means that everyone is alive as far as God is concerned.

Complete Jewish Bible
Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living — to him all are alive."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For he is not the God of the dead, but of them which liue: for all liue vnto him.

George Lamsa Translation
God is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live to him.

Hebrew Names Version
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."

International Standard Version
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all people are alive to him."all who are with him are alive">[fn]Romans 6:10-11;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But he was not the God of the dead, but of the living: for they all live unto him.

Murdock Translation
38 Now God is not [fn] of the dead, but of the living; for they all live to him.

New Living Translation
So he is the God of the living, not the dead, for they are all alive to him."

New Life Bible
For He is not the God of the dead. He is the God of the living. All live for Him."

English Revised Version
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Berean Standard Bible
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive."

New Revised Standard
Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, God, he is not, of the dead, but, of the living, - for, all, unto him, do live.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

King James Version
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Lexham English Bible
Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him!"

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he is not a God of dead, but of lyuyng: For all lyue vnto hym.

Easy-to-Read Version
So they were not still dead, because he is the God only of living people. Yes, to God they are all still living."

English Standard Version
Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him."

New American Standard Bible
"Now He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to Him."

Good News Translation
He is the God of the living, not of the dead, for to him all are alive."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And God is not of deed men, but of lyuynge men; for alle men lyuen to hym.

Young's Literal Translation
and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'

Contextual Overview

²⁷ And some of the Sadducees coming up, those speaking against a resurrection, that it was not to be, they questioned Him, ²⁸ saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If anyone's brother dies having a wife, and this one should die childless, that his brother should take the wife and raise up seed to his brother. Deut. 25:5 ²⁹ Then there were seven brothers. And having taken a wife, the first died childless. ³⁰ And the second took the wife, and this one died childless. ³¹ And the third took her, and likewise also the seven did not leave children, and died. ³² And last of all the woman died. ³³ Then in the resurrection, of which of them does she become wife? For the seven had her as wife. ³⁴ And answering, Jesus said to them, The sons of this world marry and are given in marriage. ³⁵ But those counted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage. ³⁶ For they are not able to die any more; they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a God: Psalms 16:5-11, Psalms 22:23-26, Psalms 145:1, Psalms 145:2, Hebrews 11:16

for all: John 6:57, John 11:25, John 11:26, John 14:19, Romans 6:10, Romans 6:11, Romans 6:22, Romans 6:23, Romans 14:7-9, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 2 Corinthians 13:4, Colossians 3:3, Colossians 3:4, Revelation 7:15-17, Revelation 22:1

Reciprocal: Psalms 91:2 - my God Matthew 22:32 - God is Acts 17:28 - in him Hebrews 6:12 - inherit

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living,....

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for all live unto him. The Persic version, reads, "all these live unto him"; namely, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for though they are dead to men, they are not to God; their souls live with him, and their bodies will be raised by him: he reckons of them, as if they were now alive, for he quickens the dead, and calls things that are not, as though they were; and this is the case of all the saints that are dead, as well as of those patriarchs. The Ethiopic reads, "all live with him"; as the souls of all departed saints do; the Arabic version reads, all live in him; so all do now, Acts 17:28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this explained in the Matthew 22:15-33 notes, and Mark 12:13-27 notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 38. All live unto him. — There is a remarkable passage in Josephus's account of the Maccabees, chap. xvi., which proves that the best informed Jews believed that the souls of righteous men were in the presence of God in a state of happiness. "They who lose their lives for the sake of God, LIVE unto GOD, as do Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the rest of the patriarchs." And one not less remarkable in Shemoth Rabba, fol. 159. "Rabbi Abbin saith, The Lord said unto Moses, Find me out ten righteous persons among the people, and I will not destroy thy people. Then said Moses, Behold, here am I, Aaron, Eleazar, Ithamar, Phineas, Caleb, and Joshua; but God said, Here are but seven, where are the other three? When Moses knew not what to do, he said, O Eternal God, do those live that are dead! Yes, saith God. Then said Moses, If those that are dead do live, remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." So the resurrection of the dead, and the immortality and immateriality of the soul, were not strange or unknown doctrines among the Jews.