Revelation 21:1–14

¹And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; ²and I, John, saw the holy city—new Jerusalem—coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband; ³and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, ‘Lo, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them—their God, ⁴and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.’ ⁵And He who is sitting upon the throne said, ‘Lo, new I make all things;’ and He saith to me, ‘Write, because these words are true and stedfast;’ ⁶and He said to me, ‘It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely; ⁷he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him—a God, and he shall be to me—the son, ⁸and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.’

⁹And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, ‘Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb—the wife,’ ¹⁰and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, ¹¹having the glory of God, and her light is like a stone most precious, as a jasper stone clear as crystal, ¹²having also a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written thereon, which are those of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel, ¹³at the east three gates, at the north three gates, at the south three gates, at the west three gates; ¹⁴and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.