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NASB | Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven [who do not marry nor produce children]. |
Bible Question: Will there be marriages in heaven? |
Bible Answer: Hello dd, It's an honest question that I believe most of us have asked. To be sure we know the answer is no, we will not marry, we will not be given in marriage, and if we die married we will no longer be married in glory. Along with what Humbledbyhisgrace has pointed out in the Matthew passage, we see that the institution of marriage, created by God, is dissolved at the moment one of the married couple dies. Rom 7:2 2 Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. ESV So there should be no confusion about whether a married living person will be married in Heaven. We won't be. " But, in the resurrection, there is no occasion for marriage; whether in glorified bodies there will be any distinction of sexes some too curiously dispute (the ancients are divided in their opinions about it); but, whether there will be a distinction or not, it is certain that there will be no conjunction; where God will be all in all, there needs no other meet-help; the body will be spiritual, and there will be in it no carnal desires to be gratified: when the mystical body is completed, there will be no further occasion to seek a godly seed, which was one end of the institution of marriage, Mal 2:15. In heaven there will be no decay of the individuals, and therefore no eating and drinking; no decay of the species, and therefore no marrying; where there shall be no more deaths (Rev 21:4), there need be no more births. The married state is a composition of joys and cares; those that enter upon it are taught to look upon it as subject to changes, richer and poorer, sickness and health; and therefore it is fit for this mixed, changing world; but as in hell, where there is no joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride shall be heard no more at all, so in heaven, where there is all joy, and no care or pain or trouble, there will be no marrying. The joys of that state are pure and spiritual, and arise from the marriage of all of them to the Lamb, not of any of them to one another." (from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition, Electronic Database. Copyright © 1991 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.) Hope this helps, Jeff |