14 Bible Verses About Citizens of Heaven

So you are no longer strangers and resident foreigners. You are citizens together with God’s holy people, and you belong to God’s household.

There is no city here that remains for us; the city we are looking for is the one still to come.

You have been raised with Christ, then. So seek what is above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Fix your thoughts on what is above, not on what is on earth.

Dear friends, you live here as outsiders and temporary residents. So I urge you to keep away from the cravings of the flesh, for they fight against your soul.

But as things are, they are reaching out for something better: a homeland in heaven. So God does not count it a shame to be known as their God, and he has made a city ready for them.

For you died, and the life you now have lies hidden with Christ in God.

For we know that if the tent we live in here on earth is taken down, we have a building from God, a house that no human hands have made, eternal, in heaven.

There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise I would have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you. And when I have gone and prepared a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you also may be where I am.

and into an inheritance that can never decay, never be stained, and never wither. That inheritance is kept safe in heaven for you,

All these died still holding to faith. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it from far off and welcomed it, and they openly said that they were foreigners and passing visitors on the earth.

and I run straight for the goal to win the prize promised by God’s upward call in Christ Jesus.

Instead, pile up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where no moth or rust can ruin them and no thief can dig through and steal.

No: you have approached Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have approached myriads of angels, a festival gathering