(chiefly, religion) The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.
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Living in paradise comes with a price.
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And Jesus said unto him [the malefactor], Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
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1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 23:43:
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This employment I considered as the only satisfaction I could offer to the memory of your unfortunate mother, and I flatter myself that if she could look down, it would give her angelic mind pleasure even in paradise, to behold me instilling into the minds of her children, sentiments congenial with her own.
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1791, Charlotte Lennox, “Hermione”, in London[1], volume 1, William Lane, page 123:
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The imagination of the Hindoo paints his Swergas as "profuse of bliss," and all the joys of sense are collected in the Paradise of the Mussulman.
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1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 71:
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He hears his daughter's voice, / Singing in the village choir, / And it makes his heart rejoice. / It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise!
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1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Miscellaneous.] The Village Blacksmith.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanzas 5–6, page 101:
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I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual adulthood than to any other state we know.
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2004, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, London: Virago, published 2005, page 189:
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Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides. The first group of krogan brought into orbit by the salarian uplift teams requested a trip to Kruban. The salarians at first thought the krogan were confused about the nature of Kruban's environment; the planet is named for a krogan mythological paradise in which honorable warriors feast on the internal organs of their enemies. In fact, krogan astronomers had correctly deduced the nature of Kruban in the years before the global holocaust.