Revelation 21:2–27

²I also saw the holy city,^ai the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,^aj prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.^ak

³Then I heard a loud voice^al from the throne:^Cam Look, God’s dwelling^D is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples,^Ean and God himself will be with them and will be their God.^{F 4}He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.^ao Death will be no more;^ap grief, crying, and pain will be no more,^aq because the previous things^G have passed away.^ar

⁵Then the one seated on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words^H are faithful and true.”^{as 6}Then he said to me, “It is done!^at I am the Alpha and the Omega,^au the beginning and the end.^av I will freely give to the thirsty^aw from the spring of the water of life.^{ax 7}The one who conquers^ay will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son.^{az 8}But the cowards, faithless,^A detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars^ba—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur,^a which is the second death.”^b

THE NEW JERUSALEM

⁹Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues,^c came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰He then carried me away in the Spirit^Bd to a great, high mountain^e and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹arrayed with God’s glory.^f Her radiance was like a precious jewel, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. ¹²The city had a massive high wall, with twelve gates. Twelve angels were at the gates; the names of the twelve tribes of Israel’s sons were inscribed on the gates. ¹³There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.^{g 14}The city wall had twelve foundations, and the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb were on the foundations.

¹⁵The one who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod^h to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.^{i 16}The city is laid out in a square; its length and width are the same. He measured the city with the rod at 12,000 stadia.^C Its length, width, and height are equal. ¹⁷Then he measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which the angel used. ¹⁸The building material of its wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold clear as glass. ¹⁹The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of jewel:^j the first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹The twelve gates are twelve pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The main street^D of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.

²²I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.^{k 24}The nations will walk by its light,^l and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.^{Em 25}Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.^{n 26}They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.^{Fo 27}Nothing unclean will ever enter it,^p nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.^q