11 Bible Verses about Heaven, Glimpsed By Humans

And just as soon as He started to come up out of the water, He saw the heavens split open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter Him.

And as soon as Jesus was baptized, He at once went up out of the water, and look! the heavens opened, and John saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon Him,

Now when all the people had been baptized, and when Jesus had been baptized and was still praying, heaven opened and the Holy Spirit came down upon Him in bodily form as a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! In you I am delighted!"

Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on Him.

So he said, "Look! I see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand."

I know a man in union with Christ fourteen years ago -- whether in the body or out of it, I do not know, but God knows -- who was caught up to the third heaven. Yes, I know that this man -- whether in or out of the body, I do not know, but God knows -- was actually caught up into paradise, and heard things that must not be told, which no man has a right even to mention.

After this I had another vision: A door was standing open in heaven, and the first voice, like a trumpet, that I had heard speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place."

When He took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each with a harp, and golden bowls that were full of incense, which represent the prayers of God's people.

whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.

But I tell you not to swear at all, either by heaven, for it is God's throne,

Above all, my brothers, stop swearing, either by heaven or by the earth, or by anything else. Let your "Yes" mean Yes, and your "No," No, so as to keep from falling under condemnation.