32 Bible Verses about Christ And Heaven
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If, when I tell you earthly things, you do not believe me, how will you believe me when I tell you of heavenly things?
He who comes from above is above all others; but a child of earth is earthly, and his teaching is earthly, too. He who comes from Heaven is above all others.
For I have come down from Heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me;
For the Bread that God gives is that which comes down from Heaven, and gives Life to the world."
Upon this the Jews began murmuring against Jesus for saying-- 'I am the Bread which came down from Heaven.'
The Bread that comes down from Heaven is such that whoever eats of it will never die.
I am the Living Bread that has come down from Heaven. If any one eats of this Bread, he will live for ever; and the Bread that I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the Life of the world."
That is the Bread which has come down from Heaven--not such as your ancestors ate, and yet died; he who takes this Bread for his food shall live for ever."
"Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son," they asked, "whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from Heaven?"
No one has ascended to Heaven, except him who descended from Heaven--the Son of Man himself.
For in him was created all that is in Heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible--Angels and Archangels and all the Powers of Heaven.
And through him to reconcile all things to himself (making peace by the shedding of Christ's blood offered upon the cross)-- whether on earth or in Heaven.
Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and, to test Jesus, requested him to show them some sign from the heavens.
Here the Pharisees came out, and began to argue with Jesus, asking him for some sign from the heavens, to test him.
"You," added Jesus, "are from below, I am from above; you are of this present world, I am not;
And said: "Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up into the heavens? This very Jesus, who has been taken from you into the heavens, will come in the very way in which you have seen him go into the heavens."
It was not David who went up into Heaven; for he himself says- -'The Lord said to my master: "Sit on my right hand,
But Heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy Prophets from the very first.
Those who are of the dust are like him who came from the dust; and those who are of Heaven are like him who came from Heaven.
And as we have borne the likeness of him who came from the dust, so let us bear the likeness of him who came from Heaven.
The same mighty power was exerted upon the Christ, when he raised the Christ from the dead and 'caused him to sit at his right hand' on high, exalting him above all Angels and Archangels of every rank,
And masters, treat your slaves in the same spirit. Give up threatening them; for you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in Heaven, and that before him there is no distinction of rank.
But the State of which we are citizens is in Heaven; and it is from Heaven that we are eagerly looking for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
For, with a loud summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the trumpet-call of God, the Lord himself will come down from Heaven.
And to give relief to you who are suffering, as well as to us, at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with his mighty angels, 'in flaming fire.'
This was the High Priest that we needed--holy, innocent, spotless, withdrawn from sinners, exalted above the highest Heaven,
To sum up what I have been saying:--Such is the High Priest that we have, one who 'has taken his seat at the right hand' of the throne of God's Majesty in Heaven,
For it was not into a Sanctuary made by human hands, which merely foreshadowed the true one, that Christ entered, but into Heaven itself, that he might now appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
We have, then, in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has passed into the highest Heaven; let us, therefore, hold fast to the Faith which we have professed.
who has gone into Heaven, and is at God's right hand, where Angels and Archangels and the Powers of Heaven now yield submission to him.