Λουκᾶν 20:38

Greek Modern Translation

Ο δε Θεος δεν ειναι νεκρων, αλλα ζωντων· διοτι παντες ζωσι εν αυτω.

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
θεος δε ουκ εστιν νεκρων αλλα ζωντων παντες γας αυτω ζωσιν

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
θεὸς δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν νεκρῶν ἀλλὰ ζώντων, πάντες γὰρ αὐτῷ ζῶσιν.

Tischendorf 8th Edition
θεὸς δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν νεκρῶν ἀλλὰ ζώντων· πάντες γὰρ αὐτῷ ζῶσιν.

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
θεος δε ουκ εστιν νεκρων αλλα ζωντων παντες γας αυτω ζωσιν

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
θεος δε ουκ εστιν νεκρων αλλα ζωντων παντες γαρ αυτω ζωσιν

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.