37 Bible Verses about What Heaven Will Be Like
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And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, crying, "Lo, God's dwelling-place is with men, with men will he dwell; they shall be his people, and God will himself be with them:
And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.
His master said to him, 'Capital, you excellent and trusty servant! You have been trusty in charge of a small sum: I will put you in charge of a large sum. Come and share your master's feast.'
For who is our hope, our joy, our crown of pride (who but you?) in the presence of our Lord Jesus on his arrival? Why, you, you are our glory and joy!
They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it ??6 since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you, and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: ??'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit ??blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'"
At the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels of God in heaven.
When people rise from the dead they neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels in heaven.
but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married, for they cannot die any more; they are equal to angels and by sharing in the resurrection they are sons of God.
And the City needs no sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God illumines it, and the Lamb lights it up.
Then the just will shine like the sun in the Realm of their Father. He who has an ear, let him listen to this.
The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,
But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.
Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.
Now I make this appeal to your presbyters (for I am a presbyter myself, I was a witness of what Christ suffered and I am to share the glory that will be revealed),
he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more ??no more wailing or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away."
for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, guiding them to fountains of living water; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."
But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,
but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.)
And I saw the holy City, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, all ready like a bride arrayed for her husband.
Only, do not rejoice because the spirits obey you: rejoice because your names are enrolled in heaven."
And you, my true comrade, lend a hand to these women, I beg of you; they have fought at my side in the active service of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.
to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
'The conqueror shall be clad in white raiment; I will never erase his name from the book of Life, but will own him openly before my Father and before his angels.'
and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.
Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on mount Sion, and along with him a hundred and forty-four thousand bearing his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads!
The Beast you have seen was, is not, but is to rise from the abyss ??yet to perdition he shall go ??and the dwellers on earth will wonder (all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life), when they see that the Beast was, is not, but is coming.
And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened ??also another book, the book of Life, was opened ??and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.
Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.