'Heaven' in the Bible

And when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the keepers of the sheep said to one another, Let us go now to Beth-lehem, and see this thing which has come about, which the Lord has made clear to us.

Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open,

The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.

A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.

And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, may we send fire from heaven and put an end to them?

And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.

And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.

Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.

In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.

If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

And others, testing him, were looking for a sign from heaven from him.

Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.

O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?

It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:

And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.

But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.

But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

But Jesus sent for them, saying, Let the children come to me, and do not keep them away, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.

Saying, A blessing on the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest.

The baptism of John, was it from heaven or of men?

And they said among themselves, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why did you not have faith in him?

There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.

Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

And an angel from heaven came to him, to give him strength.

And now I will send to you what my father has undertaken to give you, but do not go from the town, till the power from heaven comes to you.

And while he was doing so, he went from them and was taken up into heaven.

And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him.

And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.

If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?

And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.

Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:

Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:

And while they were looking up to heaven with great attention, two men came to them, in white clothing,

And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and all the house where they were was full of it.

Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven.

And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:

For David has not gone up into heaven, but says, himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand,

Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.

And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.

And hearing it, they all, with one mind, made prayer to God and said, O Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them:

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God.

And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.

And while he was journeying, he came near Damascus; and suddenly he saw a light from heaven shining round him;

And this was done three times: and then the vessel was taken back into heaven.

I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me:

But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

And this was done three times, and they were all taken up again into heaven.

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;

And it came about that while I was on my journey, coming near to Damascus, about the middle of the day, suddenly I saw a great light from heaven shining round me.

In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me.

So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;

For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:)

For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,

And there are bodies of heaven and bodies of earth, but the glory of the one is different from that of the other.

The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.

Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.

And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.

For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.

The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,

By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.

So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,

For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;

Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.