Love in heaven

The new age will be peopled by new beings living a new life under new conditions.  Humans will be like angels.  Mortals will have become immortal.  Borrowing a phrase from the apostle Paul, they will have been ‘raised imperishable’ (1 Cor. 15:52-54).  Consequently, the need to propagate the race will no longer exist.  The creation command to ‘be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth’ (Gn. 1:28) will be rescinded.  And in so far as reproduction is one of the chief purposes of marriage, humans will no longer marry.  Not that love will cease, for ‘love never ends’ (1 Cor. 13:8).  But sexuality will be transcended, and personal relationships will be neither exclusive in their character nor physical in their expression.

—Dr. John R.W. Stott,  Christ the Controversialist