In the afterlife, our connections with others will be transformed, as Jesus teaches that in heaven, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. The apostle John reassures us that our knowledge of God's love will be complete, and our relationships with Him and others will be characterized by perfect fellowship, as seen in 1 John. According to 1 Peter, even now, Christ's sacrifice enables us to have a deepening relationship with God, and Luke's parables suggest that heavenly joy is intensified by the presence of redeemed believers. The resurrected Jesus appeared to His disciples, demonstrating the enduring bonds of love and friendship that transcend even death.
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In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.
By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit, in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
It was the first day of the week, and that very evening, while the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you!” He said to them. After He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.” When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.”
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.