What does the Bible say about heaven?
Heaven in the Bible is less a location and more a presence — life in unbroken nearness to God. Revelation 21 paints the climactic picture: a new heaven and new earth, no more death, no more tears, God dwelling with his people. Jesus' simplest promise: 'In my Father's house are many homes… I go to prepare a place for you.'
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Bible verses about heaven
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and betheir God: and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away."
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"Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
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"For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens."
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"For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:"
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"but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, Andwhichentered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him."
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"but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:"
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What will heaven be like according to the Bible?
Revelation 21-22 describes it as a place of restored creation, no more death or sorrow, and direct fellowship with God. 1 Corinthians 2:9 admits the fullness 'has not entered into the heart of man.'
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