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 §140
And when the holy fire of God sterilizes the earth ... when the chemicals ... He's lifted his bride, which can come into heaven with Him while this is going on, and comes back upon the earth again---a new heavens and a new earth. The cold winter can't hurt it; the hot summers can't hurt it; the deserts will blossom as a rose; sin and sinners are gone; God in his creatures and creation is dwelling together in perfect harmony. As the heavens and the earth is husband and wife, so is Christ and the church. And they all...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §212
Watch, outside the gates of the walls spread across the new earth, nations will dwell in eternal peace. Now watch, honored kings will bring their glory into it; no sin can be there. No more bobbed-haired women will enter that city; I'll guarantee you that. No more short wearing, cigarette smoking, whoremongers, whores, or liars, idolators (whatever they was), won't enter that city. No, it'll all be over; sin'll be gone. Nothing to defile its holiness shall enter there. That's what He said. All has passed away forev...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §132
And then when the earth is restored by the same thing, there can be no more cursing, no more storms, no more winds, no more taphoons---typhoons rather; you're reconciled. Man and God has met. The new earth will be put on its Eden beauty again. The new earth will spread forth her... After her baptism of fire, just think, she'll catch afire and burn up. The elements will burn with fervent heat; all the works in the earth will burn; all the water will explode; it'll ignite and blow all---everything will blow up. Volca...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §19
Now in the Revelation of Christ, in the 21st chapter, I read these words: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there were no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, an...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 3
57-1006 §61
And Christ becomes... God dwells in that perfect, marred body completely forever and through eternity. When the Lamb and the bride is married in heaven, she walks out in full possession. Absolutely! Isaac and Rebekah came forth in full possession. And while this ceremony is going on in heaven, of the bride, the Gentile bride being married to the Prince (God's Son), in Glory; while they're being married, there's three and a half years that takes place while Moses and Elijah... Which, Moses was never absent ... no, h...