Will There Be Sex in Heaven?
1) Direct Answer
No. In heaven, in the resurrection, there will be no sex and no marriage. The saints will be like the angels, and the union we rejoice in is our spiritual oneness with Christ.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Jesus said, “In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven” (Matthew 22:30). Luke adds, “They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection… neither marry… neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels” (Luke 20:34-36).
- The “marriage supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:7-9) is the celebration of the redeemed being joined to Christ. Ephesians says earthly marriage is “a great mystery” pointing to “Christ and the church” (Ephesians 5:31-32). That union is spiritual, not carnal.
- Our bodies will be changed: “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 15:50). We will be raised in glory and power (1 Corinthians 15:42-44), fashioned like His glorious body (Philippians 3:21). In that state there is no death, no curse (Revelation 21:4; 22:3), so the earthly order of marrying and multiplying no longer applies.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Marriage and sexual relations belong to this mortal life for companionship and the raising of children. But in the resurrection there is no death, so no need to replenish the earth. That’s why Jesus said we will be like the angels—alive forever, not entering into marriage.
- Our joy and love will be higher, fuller, and purer—perfect fellowship with God and with one another—without the pull of earthly appetites. The “marriage” then is the true spiritual union: Christ in His Bride.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, the Bible settles it simply: no marrying in the resurrection, like the angels. It’s not a loss, but a higher life—perfect love without temptation, the fullness of Christ with His redeemed.
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Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §95
You're the same man in statue that you was when God called you---same woman. But you see what it did---it was a regeneration: the old life passed away; the old desires passed away. When you used to like to drink, and cuss, and fuss, and stew, and run around, and immoral ... that thing just died. See? But now you are used... Then you was Satan's instrument, now you are redeemed. And that's what the world will be, the same way, redeemed! A new heavens and new earth just like you---you are a new creature. And the Gree...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §117
or after time has been fulfilled. All sin is gone---taken away at the millennium, at the great white throne judgment---a type of the Holy Ghost. After the world is on fire and baptized, its baptism of holy fire from heaven; all sin is gone; all germs is gone; all devils is gone; all temptations is gone; all evil is gone (type now). Then what does God do? He can sit upon the earth (see), because all sin's gone.
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §225
death doesn't change you. Death only changes your dwelling place. See? Remember, Samuel, when he was dead and been buried for two years; he was in Paradise, and the witch of Endor called him up, and Saul recognized him, and she did too and fell upon her face. He hadn't changed one bit. He was still the same Samuel after being dead two years, and he was still a prophet. He said, "Tomorrow you'll fall in battle, your son with you, and by this time tomorrow night you'll be with me." And that's just what happened. See?...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §177
Oh, praise the Lord Jesus! Watch here, how the Word cannot fail. Now watch here in Isaiah. I got it wrote down here, if I can find it again. Just a minute. Isaiah 4:5. Now listen, he's talking of the coming of the Lord, how that women would be so immoral. Oh, he said, "Seven women..." Listen, let's just read it. Look here: And in that day seven women shall take ahold of one man, saying, We'll eat our own bread, ... wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. [That's the end t...
Hebrews, Chapter 6, part 2
57-0908E §34
I could run out and be gone all the time, just gadding about over the country, and let her half starve or anything, let the children go without something to eat, we're still married! If she even divorces me, I'm still married as long as there's life in my body; I took that vow: "Till death we separate." That's right, we're still married. But, yet, I make a poor excuse of a husband. She'd make a poor excuse as a wife. So if we love one another, we stick together and pull the load together. That's the way God and His...