21Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”^a^m for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,ⁿ and there was no longer any sea. ²I saw the Holy City,^o the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,^p prepared as a bride^q beautifully dressed for her husband. ³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them.^r They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.^s ⁴‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes.^t There will be no more death’^b^u or mourning or crying or pain,^v for the old order of things has passed away.”^w

⁵He who was seated on the throne^x said, “I am making everything new!”^y Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”^z

⁶He said to me: “It is done.^a I am the Alpha and the Omega,^b the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost^c from the spring of the water of life.^d ⁷Those who are victorious^e will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.^f ⁸But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars^g—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.^h This is the second death.”ⁱ

The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

⁹One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues^j came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride,^k the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰And he carried me away^l in the Spirit^m to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.ⁿ ¹¹It shone with the glory of God,^o and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper,^p clear as crystal.^q ¹²It had a great, high wall with twelve gates,^r and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.^s ¹³There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. ¹⁴The wall of the city had twelve foundations,^t and on them were the names of the twelve apostles^u of the Lamb.

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Revelation 21:4: “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Footnotes

Cross references

mSee 2 Pe 3:13
nSee Rev 6:14
over 10; Ne 11:18; Isa 52:1; Rev 11:2; 22:19
pver 10; Heb 11:10; 12:22; Rev 3:12
qSee Rev 19:7
r Ex 25:8; 2 Ch 6:18; Eze 48:35; Zec 2:10
sSee 2 Co 6:16
tSee Rev 7:17
u Isa 25:8; 1 Co 15:26; Rev 20:14
v Isa 35:10; 65:19
wSee 2 Co 5:17
x Rev 4:9; 20:11
yver 4
z Rev 19:9; 22:6
a Rev 16:17
b Rev 1:8; 22:13
c Isa 55:1
dSee Jn 4:10
eSee Jn 16:33
fver 3; 2 Sa 7:14; 2 Co 6:16; See Ro 8:14
gver 27; Ps 5:6; 1 Co 6:9; Heb 12:14; Rev 22:15
hSee Rev 9:17
iSee Rev 2:11
jSee Rev 15:1, 6, 7
kSee Rev 19:7
l Eze 40:2; Rev 17:3
mSee Rev 1:10
nSee ver 2
over 23; Isa 60:1, 2; Eze 43:2; Rev 15:8; 22:5
pver 18, 19; Rev 4:3
q Rev 4:6
rver 15, 21, 25; Rev 22:14
s Eze 48:30–34
tSee Eph 2:20; Heb 11:10
u Ac 1:26; Eph 2:20