²in the middle of ^aits street. ^bOn either side of the river was ^cthe tree of life, bearing twelve ¹kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

³^aThere will no longer be any curse; and ^bthe throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will ^cserve Him;

⁴they will ^asee His face, and His ^bname will be on their ^cforeheads.

⁵And ^athere will no longer be any night; and they ¹will not have need ^bof the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will ^creign forever and ever.

⁶And ^ahe said to me, “^bThese words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the ^cGod of the spirits of the prophets, ^dsent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place.

⁷“And behold, ^aI am coming quickly. ^bBlessed is he who ¹heeds ^cthe words of the prophecy of this book.”

⁸^aI, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, ^bI fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

⁹But ^ahe ^*said to me, “Do not do that. I am a ^bfellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who ¹heed the words of ^cthis book. Worship God.”

The Final Message

¹⁰And he ^*said to me, “^aDo not seal up ^bthe words of the prophecy of this book, ^cfor the time is near.

¹¹“^aLet the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.”

¹²“Behold, ^aI am coming quickly, and My ^breward is with Me, ^cto render to every man ¹according to what he has done.

¹³“I am the ^aAlpha and the Omega, ^bthe first and the last, ^cthe beginning and the end.”

¹⁴Blessed are those who ^awash their robes, so that they may have the right to ^bthe tree of life, and may ^center by the ^dgates into the city.

¹⁵^aOutside are the ^bdogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

¹⁶“^aI, Jesus, have sent ^bMy angel to testify to you these things ¹^cfor the churches. I am ^dthe root and the ^edescendant of David, the bright ^fmorning star.”

¹⁷The ^aSpirit and the ^bbride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And ^clet the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the ^dwater of life without cost.

¹⁸I testify to everyone who hears ^athe words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone ^badds to them, God will add to him ^cthe plagues which are written in ^dthis book;

¹⁹and if anyone ^atakes away from the ^bwords of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from ^cthe tree of life and ¹from the holy city, ^dwhich are written in this book.

²⁰He who ^atestifies to these things says, “Yes, ^bI am coming quickly.” Amen. ^cCome, Lord Jesus.

²¹^aThe grace of the Lord Jesus be with ¹all. Amen.

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Footnotes

1Lit bright
2Or the Lamb In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was
1Or crops of fruit
1Lit do not have
1Lit keeps
*A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.
1Lit keep
1Lit as his work is
1Or concerning
1Lit out of
1One early ms reads the saints

Cross references

a Rev 1:1; 21:9; 22:6
b Ps 46:4; Ezek 47:1
c Zech 14:8; Rev 7:17; 22:17
d Rev 4:6
a Rev 21:21
b Ezek 47:12
c Gen 2:9; Rev 2:7; 22:14, 19
a Zech 14:11
b Rev 21:3
c Rev 7:15
a Ps 17:15; 42:2; Matt 5:8
b Rev 14:1
c Rev 7:3
a Zech 14:7; Rev 21:25
b Is 60:19; Rev 21:23
c Dan 7:18, 27; Matt 19:28; Rom 5:17; Rev 20:4
a Rev 1:1; 21:9
b Rev 19:9; 21:5
c 1 Cor 14:32; Heb 12:9
d Rev 1:1; 22:16
a Rev 1:3; 3:3, 11; 16:15; 22:12, 20
b Rev 1:3; 16:15
c Rev 1:11; 22:9, 10, 18f
a Rev 1:1
b Rev 19:10
a Rev 19:10
b Rev 1:1
c Rev 1:11; 22:10, 18f
a Dan 8:26; Rev 10:4
b Rev 1:11; 22:9, 18f
c Rev 1:3
a Ezek 3:27; Dan 12:10
a Rev 22:7
b Is 40:10; 62:11
c Ps 28:4; Jer 17:10; Matt 16:27; Rev 2:23
a Rev 1:8
b Is 44:6; 48:12; Rev 1:17; 2:8
c Rev 21:6
a Rev 7:14
b Gen 2:9; 3:22; Rev 22:2
c Rev 21:27
d Rev 21:12
a Matt 8:12; 1 Cor 6:9f; Gal 5:19ff; Rev 21:8
b Deut 23:18; Matt 7:6; Phil 3:2
a Rev 1:1
b Rev 1:1; 22:6
c Rev 1:4, 11; 3:22
d Rev 5:5
e Matt 1:1
f Matt 2:2; Rev 2:28
a Rev 2:7; 14:13
b Rev 21:2, 9
c Is 55:1; Rev 21:6
d Rev 7:17; 22:1
a Rev 22:7
b Deut 4:2; 12:32; Prov 30:6
c Rev 15:6–16:21
d Rev 22:7
a Deut 4:2; 12:32; Prov 30:6
b Rev 22:7
c Rev 22:2
d Rev 21:10–22:5
a Rev 1:2
b Rev 22:7
c 1 Cor 16:22
a Rom 16:20