# Where in the Bible does it say you'll be reunited with loved ones in the afterlife?

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**Created:** [April 23, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-bible-does-it-say-youll-be-reunited-with-loved-ones-in-the-afterlife/446536 "2008-04-23T13:05:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-bible-does-it-say-youll-be-reunited-with-loved-ones-in-the-afterlife/446536/21 "2008-04-24T23:40:16Z")

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[QUOTE=aldiboronti]  
“Till death do us part” is the traditional Christian marriage vow. Once you’re widowed you’re free to marry again in the eyes of the church, and, of course, many Christians do.

So which family are they supposed to be reunited with in heaven? (Mickey Rooney is gonna have a real headache when he gets ther).  
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Ask the man himself:

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> [Matthew 22:23–30](http://bible.oremus.org/?passage=matthew+22:23-30)  
> 23 The same day some Sadducees came to him, saying there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying, 24 ‘Teacher, Moses said, “If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.” 25 Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died childless, leaving the widow to his brother. 26 The second did the same, so also the third, down to the seventh. 27 Last of all, the woman herself died. 28 In the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven will she be? For all of them had married her.’
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> 29 Jesus answered them, ‘You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

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**Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-bible-does-it-say-youll-be-reunited-with-loved-ones-in-the-afterlife/446536/22 "2008-04-25T04:39:46Z")

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My ninety-five year old mother frets about whether she will be with my father whom she was married to for over fifty years or the former pilot that she has been in love with for the last ten years. How can she ever be happy with just one? How will God ever be able to make it all work out right?

**Talk about control issues!**

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