What Age Will We Be in Heaven?
It’s a question that many of us have wondered—sometimes with curiosity, sometimes with comfort: What age will we be in heaven?
Will we all be young again?
Will we look the same as we did when we died?
Will there be babies or the elderly in glory?
It’s the kind of question that naturally arises when we think about the resurrection and eternity. But here’s the surprising thing: the Bible doesn’t really talk about age in heaven, and there’s a good reason for that.
Let’s explore why the question of age might actually miss the deeper beauty of what God has promised us in the resurrection.
More Than Just a Body: What Are We, Really?
Thomas Aquinas had a helpful way of understanding what it means to be human. He described us as a combination of two things: body and soul. The soul gives life, purpose, and identity to the body. And the body expresses the soul in the physical world. These two together make us a whole person.
In this life, our bodies are fragile. They age, get sick, and eventually die. Sometimes they limit what we’re able to do or feel, or express. Our bodies, by nature of the fall, sometimes start handicapped and unable to express themselves, or they age and their brains degenerate, but that’s not how God designed us to be forever.
What the Resurrection Really Promises
When the Bible speaks about the resurrection, it doesn’t talk about going back to a certain age, it talks about receiving new, glorified bodies. These won’t be weak or worn out. They’ll be perfectly suited to reflect who we truly are in Christ, free from sin, sickness, and death.
Paul puts it this way in 1 Corinthians 15:42–43:
“The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.”
Aquinas taught that these resurrected bodies would be full of “integrity”, that is, nothing would be missing, broken, or out of place. Every part of us will be working exactly as God intended. So rather than being 25, 35, or any other age, we’ll be in a perfect state. We won’t be bound by age at all.
Why “Age” Isn’t the Point
In our current experience, age tells us a lot—babies can’t talk yet, teenagers are still maturing, and older adults often deal with physical decline. Even at our “peak,” we still deal with the consequences of a fallen world.
But in heaven, all of that changes. The glorified body isn’t just a better version of your 20-year-old self—it’s something entirely new, made to fully reflect the soul, without any of the limitations we know now.
Even Jesus, after His resurrection, was fully human; He could eat and be touched, but He was no longer subject to pain, decay, or death (Luke 24:39; John 20:27). That’s the kind of body we’re promised in Christ (Philippians 3:21).
Instead of wondering about the ideal age, the better question is: What has God prepared for us in the resurrection?
The answer is: a body and soul in perfect harmony, made to live forever in His presence. As N.T. Wright explains, Our future isn’t about being young again, it’s about being new, fit for the world to come, fully ourselves as God always meant us to be.
That means no more weakness, no more shame, no more limitations—just joy, peace, and wholeness. That’s what we long for, and that’s what Jesus has secured for us.
So, will we be 20 in heaven? 33? 85?
No—but we will be gloriously whole.