Revelation 21:14–27

¹⁴Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and ^yon them were the ¹names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵And he who talked with me ^zhad a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. ¹⁶The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand ²furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal. ¹⁷Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. ¹⁸The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ^19aThe foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. ²¹The twelve gates were twelve ^bpearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. ^cAnd the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

The Glory of the New Jerusalem

^22dBut I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ^23eThe city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine ³in it, for the ⁴glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. ^24fAnd the nations ⁵of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor ⁶into it. ^25gIts gates shall not be shut at all by day ^h(there shall be no night there). ²⁶ⁱAnd they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into ⁷it. ²⁷But ^jthere shall by no means enter it anything ⁸that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s ^kBook of Life.