2 Thessalonians 2:16-17; 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5; Luke 20:27-38

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as it did among you,

2 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not all have faith.

3 But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from evil.

4 And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things which we command.

5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

Luke 20:27-38

27 There came to him some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection,

28 and they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother.

29 Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died without children;

30 and the second

31 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.

32 Afterward the woman also died.

33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife."

34 And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage;

35 but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,

36 for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

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