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23 Bible Verses About Going to Heaven

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Summary

  • Jesus promised his disciples a place in “my Father’s house” and said he would come again and take them to himself (John 14:2-3).
  • Jesus told the criminal crucified beside him, “today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43), and Paul called departing to be with Christ “far better” (Philippians 1:23).
  • Paul places the raising of the dead and the change of the living at the last trumpet, when the Lord descends from heaven (1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
  • In Revelation 21 the holy city comes down out of heaven to a new earth, and God dwells with his people.
  • Ephesians 2:8-9 says salvation is by grace through faith, “not a result of works.”

The Bible speaks of going to heaven in two ways: being with the Lord at death, and rising in a new body when he returns. Jesus tells a dying criminal “today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43), and Paul expects the dead to rise “at the last trumpet” (1 Corinthians 15:52). Revelation 21:3-4 describes God dwelling with people where “death shall be no more.” On the question of who goes there, Jesus answers Thomas, “No one comes…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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