Revelation 21

CHAPTER 21

The New Heaven and Earth

¹Then 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 ^athe holy city, ^bnew Jerusalem, ^ccoming down out of heaven from God, ^dmade ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

³And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, ^athe tabernacle of God is among men, and He will ^1bdwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among ²them,

⁴and He will ^awipe away every tear from their eyes; and ^bthere will no longer be any death; ^cthere will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain. ^dThe first things passed away.”

⁵And ^aHe who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am ^bmaking all things new.” And He ^*said, “Write, for ^cthese words are faithful and true.”

⁶Then He said to me, “^aThey are done. I am the ^bAlpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. ^cI will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the ^dwater of life without cost.

⁷“^aHe who overcomes will inherit these things, and ^bI will be his God and he will be My son.

⁸“^aBut for the cowardly and ¹unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in ^bthe lake that burns with fire and ²brimstone, which is the ^csecond death.”

^9aThen one of the seven angels who have the ^bseven bowls ¹full of the ^cseven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “^dCome here, I will show you the ^ebride, the wife of the Lamb.”

New Jerusalem, the Holy City

¹⁰And ^ahe carried me away ^1bin the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me ^cthe holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

¹¹having ^athe glory of God. Her ¹brilliance was like precious stone, as a ^bstone of ^ccrystal-clear jasper.

¹²¹It had a great and high wall. ²It had ^atwelve ^bgates and at those gates, twelve angels; and names ³have been written on those gates, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.

¹³There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west.

¹⁴And the wall of the city had ^atwelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the ^btwelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵And the one who spoke with me had a ¹gold measuring ^arod to measure the city and its ^bgates and its wall.

¹⁶And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the ¹rod, ²12,000 stadia; its length and width and height are equal.

¹⁷And he measured its wall, ¹144 cubits, according to ^ahuman ²measurements, which are also ^bangelic measurements.

¹⁸And the material of the wall was ^ajasper, and the city was ^bpure gold, like pure ^cglass.

^19aThe foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was ^bjasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, ^cemerald;

²⁰the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, ^asardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

²¹And the twelve ^agates were twelve ^bpearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was ^cpure gold, like transparent ^dglass.

²²And I saw ^ano sanctuary in it, for the ^bLord God the Almighty and the ^cLamb are its sanctuary.

²³And the city ^ahas no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for ^bthe glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the ^cLamb.

^24aAnd the nations will walk by its light, and the ^bkings of the earth ¹will bring their glory into it.

^25aAnd its gates ^bwill never be closed by day, for ^cthere will be no night there;

²⁶and ^athey will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.

²⁷And ^anothing defiled, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those ¹whose names are ^bwritten in the Lamb’s book of life.