Revelation 21:2–27

²And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.^{* 3}And 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.”^{* 6}Then 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.^{* 7}Those 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.”^*

Vision of the New Jerusalem

⁹Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”^{* 10}And in the spirit^k he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.^{* 11}It has the glory of God and a radiance like a very rare jewel, like jasper, clear as crystal.^{* 12}It has a great, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates are inscribed the names that are the names^l of the twelve tribes of the Israelites:^{* 13}on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. ¹⁴And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.^*

¹⁵The angel^m who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.^{* 16}The city has four equal sides, its length the same as its width, and he measured the city with his rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits by human measurement, which the angel was using. ¹⁸The wall is built of jasper, while the city is pure gold, clear as glass. ¹⁹The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every jewel; the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, ²⁰the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each of the gates is a single pearl, and the street of the city is pure gold, transparent as glass.

²²I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb.^{* 24}The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.^{* 25}Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.^{* 26}People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. ²⁷But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.^*