Revelation of John 21
The New Heaven and Earth
1 Then I saw aa new heaven and a new earth; for bthe first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. 2And I saw cthe holy city, dnew Jerusalem, ecoming down out of heaven from God, fprepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, gthe tabernacle of God is among the people, and He will hdwell among them, and they shall be His ▼▼Lit peoples
people, and God Himself will be among them ▼▼One early ms adds, as their God
, 4and He will kwipe away every tear from their eyes; and lthere will no longer be any death; mthere will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; nthe first things have passed away.” 5 And oHe who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am pmaking all things new.” And He *said, “Write, for qthese words are faithful and true.” 6Then He said to me, “ ▼▼Lit They are
sIt is done. I am the tAlpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. uI will give water to the one who thirsts from the spring of the vwater of life, without cost. 7 wThe one who overcomes will inherit these things, and xI will be his God and he will be My son. 8 yBut for the cowardly, and ▼▼Or untrustworthy
unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part will be in aathe lake that burns with fire and ▼▼I.e., burning sulfur
brimstone, which is the acsecond death.” 9 adThen one of the seven angels who had the aeseven bowls, ▼▼Lit who were full; i.e., (previously) loaded with
full of the agseven last plagues, came and spoke with me, saying, “ ahCome here, I will show you the aibride, the wife of the Lamb.” The New Jerusalem
10 And ajhe carried me away ▼▼Or in spirit
alin the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me amthe holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11having anthe glory of God. Her ▼▼Or radiance
brilliance was like a very valuable stone, like a apstone of aqcrystal-clear jasper. 12 ▼▼Lit having
It had a great and high wall, ▼▼Lit having
atwith twelve augates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on the gates, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. 13There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. 14And the wall of the city had avtwelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the awtwelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 The one who spoke with me had a ▼▼Lit measure, a gold reed
gold measuring ayrod to measure the city, its azgates, and its wall. 16The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the ▼▼Lit reed
rod, ▼▼Possibly about 1,380 miles or 2,220 km; a Roman stadion perhaps averaged 607 ft. or 185 m
twelve thousand stadia; its length, width, and height are equal. 17And he measured its wall, ▼▼Possibly about 216 ft. or 65 m; a cubit is about 18 in. or 45 cm
144 cubits, by bdhuman ▼▼Lit measure
measurements, which are also bfangelic measurements. 18The material of the wall was bgjasper; and the city was bhpure gold, like ▼▼Lit pure
clear bjglass. 19 bkThe foundation stones of the city wall were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was bljasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, bmemerald; 20the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, bnsardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21And the twelve bogates were twelve bppearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was bqpure gold, like transparent brglass. 22 I saw bsno ▼▼Or sanctuary
temple in it, for the buLord God the Almighty and the bvLamb are its ▼▼Or sanctuary
temple. 23And the city bxhas no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for bythe glory of God has illuminated it, and its lamp is the bzLamb. 24 caThe nations will walk by its light, and the cbkings of the earth ▼▼Lit bring
will bring their glory into it. 25In the daytime (for cdthere will be no night there) ceits gates cfwill never be closed; 26and cgthey will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; 27and chnothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those ▼▼Lit who have been written
whose names are cjwritten in the Lamb’s book of life.
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