²¹Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.^* ²And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.^* ³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,

“See, the home^d of God is among mortals.

He will dwell^e with them;

they will be his peoples,^f

and God himself will be with them and be their God;^g^*

⁴he will wipe every tear from their eyes.

Death will be no more;

mourning and crying and pain will be no more,

for^h the first things have passed away.”^*

⁵And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.”^* ⁶Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.^* ⁷Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God, and they will be my children. ⁸But as for the cowardly, the faithless,ⁱ the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,^j the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”^*

Read in Logos

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

dGk the tabernacle
eGk will tabernacle
fOther ancient authorities read people
gOther ancient authorities lack and be their God
hOther ancient authorities lack for
iOr the unbelieving
jOr prostitutes

Cross references

*Isa 65:17; 2 Pet 3:13; Rev 20:11
*Heb 11:10; 12:22; Rev 3:12
*Ezek 37:27; 2 Cor 6:16; Rev 7:15
*Isa 35:10; 65:19; 1 Cor 15:26; Rev 7:17; 20:14
*Isa 43:19; Rev 4:9; 19:9; 20:11
*Jn 4:10; Rev 1:8; 16:17; 22:13
*Heb 12:14; Rev 2:11; 19:20; 22:15