Revelation 21:10–22:5

¹⁰And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and lofty mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹that has the glory of God. Its radiance is like a precious stone, something like a jasper stone, shining like crystal. ¹²It has^h a great and high wall that has twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on the gates which areⁱ of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel—¹³on the east, three gates, and on the north, three gates, and on the south, three gates, and on the west, three gates. ¹⁴And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵And the one who spoke with me was holding a golden measuring rod in order that he could measure the city and its gates and its wall. ¹⁶And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is the same as its width. And he measured the city with the measuring rod at twelve thousand stadia;^j the length and the width and the height of it are equal. ¹⁷And he measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits^k according to human measure^l, which is the angel’s. ¹⁸And the material of its wall is jasper, and the city is pure gold, similar in appearance to pure glass. ¹⁹The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every kind of precious stone: the first foundation 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. ²¹And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each one of the gates was from a single pearl. And the street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

²²And I did not see a temple in it, for the Lord God All-Powerful is its temple, and the Lamb. ²³And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon, that they shine on it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴And the nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. ²⁵And its gates will never be shut by day (for there will be no night there), ²⁶and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. ²⁷And every unclean thing and one who practices^m detestable things and falsehood will never enter into it, except those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

Paradise Restored

22And he showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb ²in the middle of its street, and on both sides of the river^a is the tree of life, producing twelve fruits—yielding its fruit according to every month—and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. ³And there will not be any curse any longer, and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his slaves will serve^b him, ⁴and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. ⁵And night will not exist any longer, and they will not have need of the light of a lamp and the light^c of the sun, because the Lord God will give light to them, and they will reign forever and ever^d.