'Heaven' in the Bible

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven."

Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven residing in Jerusalem.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, 'The Lord said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved."

When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said, "Master of all, you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,

But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

As he was going along, approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'

This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.

"Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy."

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?

As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me.