'Heaven' in the Bible

Glory to God in the highest heaven,and peace on earth to people He favors!

When the angels had left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go straight to Bethlehem and see what has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. As He was praying, heaven opened,

and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a physical appearance like a dove. And a voice came from heaven:You are My beloved Son.I take delight in You!

“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! Take note—your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them. He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades!

He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a lightning flash.

However, don’t rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and the learned and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.

And others, as a test, were demanding of Him a sign from heaven.

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who don’t need repentance.

I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.’

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the law to drop out.

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all.

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me—a sinner!’

When Jesus heard this, He told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

The King who comesin the name of the Lordis the blessed One.Peace in heavenand glory in the highest heaven!

was the baptism of John from heaven or from men?”

They discussed it among themselves: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

There will be violent earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

[Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him.

And while He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.