heavenly reward
Afterlife's promised glory
Heavenly reward is the blessing or eternal life believed to await the righteous after death—compensation in the afterlife for virtue, suffering, or faith on earth.
The phrase appears in religious contexts but also ironically: He'll get his heavenly reward for putting up with her.
Someone who has gone to their heavenly reward has died.
- eternal lifeUnending conscious existence
- life everlastingPerpetual existence beyond death
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- eternal blissUnending perfect happiness
nirvana · merit · good works · beatitude · divine favor · pearly gates · tree of life · crown · crown of glory · blessedness · joy · virtue · resurrection · great beyond · grace · karma · just desserts · halo
- afterlifehell, paradise, purgatory, limbo, underworld
- Judgment Dayjudgment day, final judgment, day of reckoning, doomsday, second coming
- Christian hopeblessed hope, Christian hope, messianic hope, eternal life, assurance
- Jewish Afterlifeworld to come, Garden of Eden, Gehenna, resurrection day, Sheol
- indulgencesindulgence, indulgences, chocolate cake, overindulgence, massage
- Bible moneymammon, tithe, alms, mite, shekel
heavenly rewarddamnation
Eternal punishment decree
eternal damnation · hell · hellfire · eternal punishment · perdition
heavenly rewarddivine punishment
Judgment from a deity
eternal punishment · divine retribution · condemnation · divine judgment · divine wrath