Revelation 21
1 Then
I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth
had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for
her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice
from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will
live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and
be their God. 4 He will wipe every tear
from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for
the old order of things has passed away."
5 He
who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then
he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and
true." 6 He said to me: "It is
done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is
thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of
life. 7 He who overcomes will inherit
all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the
vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the
idolaters and all liars-- their place will be in the fiery lake of burning
sulfur. This is the second death."
9 One
of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came
and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the
Lamb." 10 And he carried me away in
the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City,
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
11 It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a
very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve
gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names
of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13 There
were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three
on the west. 14 The wall of the city had
twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb.
15 The
angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its
gates and its walls. 16 The city was
laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the
rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is
long. 17 He measured its wall and it was
144 cubits thick, by man's measurement, which the angel was using. 18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city
of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The
foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone.
The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the
fourth emerald, 20 the fifth sardonyx,
the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz,
the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each
gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold,
like transparent glass.
22 I
did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
are its temple. 23 The city does not
need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light,
and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations
will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor
into it. 25 On no day will its gates
ever be shut, for there will be no night there.
26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor
will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names
are written in the Lamb's book of life.
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