REVELATION 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.
2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God:
4 and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.
5 And he that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he saith, Write: for these words are faithful and true.
6 And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
9 And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and shewed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
11 having the glory of God: her light was like unto a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal:
12 having a wall great and high; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13 on the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 And he that spake with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length thereof is as great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs: the length and the breadth and the height thereof are equal.
17 And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
18 And the building of the wall thereof was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass.
19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the several gates was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof.
23 And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb.
24 And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory into it.
25 And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):
26 and they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it:
27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Cross-references
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- 1Isa 65:17–19, 2Pe 3:13, Isa 66:22, Rev 21:5, 2Pe 3:10, Rev 20:11
- 2Heb 11:10, Rev 3:12, Rev 21:10, Isa 61:10, Heb 13:14, Heb 12:22, Rev 19:7–8, Rev 22:19
- 3Ezk 37:27, 2Co 6:16, Jhn 14:23, Lev 26:11–12, Zec 8:8, Heb 8:10, Jer 31:33, Jer 32:38
- 4Isa 25:8, Rev 7:17, 1Co 15:26, Isa 35:10, Isa 60:20, 1Jn 2:17, Isa 65:18–19, Isa 51:11
- 52Co 5:17, Isa 42:9, Isa 43:19, Rev 19:9, Rev 20:11, Rev 4:2, Rev 22:6, Rev 1:19
- 6Jhn 7:37–38, Jhn 4:10, Rev 7:17, Jhn 4:14, Psa 36:9, Rom 8:32, Isa 55:1–3, Rev 1:8
- 72Co 6:18, Heb 8:10, Rev 2:11, Rev 21:3, 1Jn 3:1–3, Mat 25:34, 1Pe 1:3–4, Rom 8:15–17
- 81Co 6:9–10, Rev 2:11, Eph 5:5–6, Rev 22:15, Rev 20:14–15, Gal 5:19–21, Jhn 12:42–43, Pro 19:9
- 9Rev 21:2, Rev 19:7, Rev 17:1, Rev 16:1–17, Rev 15:1–7
- 10Rev 21:2, Ezk 11:24, Ezk 11:1, Act 8:39, Rev 17:3, 2Co 12:2–4, Ezk 40:1–49, Ezk 8:3
- 11Rev 4:6, Rev 22:5, Rev 22:1, Rev 21:18–19, Ezk 1:26, Isa 60:19–20, Rev 4:3, Job 28:17
- 12Ezk 48:31–34, Rev 21:17–21, Rev 7:4–8, Rev 21:25, Isa 54:12, Psa 122:7, Neh 12:27, Num 2:2–32
- 13Ezk 48:31–34
- 14Heb 11:10, Eph 2:20, Isa 54:11, Rev 21:19–21, Eph 3:5, Rev 18:20, Mat 16:18, Mat 10:2–4
- 15Zec 2:1, Rev 11:1–2, Ezk 41:1–5, Exo 40:3–5
- 16Ezk 48:35, Ezk 48:8–20
- 17Deu 3:11, Rev 13:18, Rev 7:4, Rev 14:3, Rev 21:9
- 18Rev 21:11, Rev 21:21, Rev 21:19
- 19Isa 54:11–12, Exo 28:17–21, Job 28:16–19, Pro 3:15
- 20Rev 4:3
- 21Rev 21:18, Rev 17:4, Rev 22:2, Rev 18:16, Rev 21:11–12, Mat 13:45–46, Isa 60:17–18, 1Ki 6:20
- 22Jhn 4:23, 2Ch 2:6, 1Ki 8:27, Isa 66:1, Jhn 4:21, 2Ch 6:18, Rev 1:8, Rev 5:6
- 23Isa 60:19–20, Rev 22:5, Rev 21:11, Jhn 1:9, Isa 24:23, Rev 18:1, Luk 2:32, Jhn 1:14
- 24Rev 21:26, Zec 8:22–23, Rev 22:2, Zec 2:11, Rom 15:10–12, Isa 66:18, Isa 52:15, Isa 55:5
- 25Isa 60:11, Rev 22:5, Zec 14:7, Isa 60:20, Rev 21:23
- 26Rev 21:24
- 27Rev 22:14–15, Isa 52:1, Rev 20:15, Rev 3:5, Isa 35:8, Mat 13:41, Jol 3:17, Ezk 44:9
Topics in this chapter
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Adoption, Adultery, Alpha, Amethyst, Astronomy, Backsliders, Beryl, Book, Bride, Brimstone, Chalcedony, Character, Chrysolyte, Chrysoprasus, Church, Crystal, Cubit, Death, Decision, Earth, Emerald, Falsehood, Fellowship, Fire, Furlong, Gates, Glass, Glory, God, Gold, Heaven, Hell, Homicide, House, Idolatry, Israel, Jacinth, Jerusalem, Lake, Lamb of God, Lamp, Liars, Light, Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena, Moon, Night, Omega, Onyx, Pain, Paradox, Pearl, Perseverance, Readings, Select, Reed, Restoration, Righteous, Salvation, Sapphire, Sardius, Sardonyx, Sea, Seekers, Sorrow, Stones, Sun, Tears, Thirst, Throne, Topaz, Types, Unbelief, Vision, Walking, Walls, of the Cities, War, Water, Whoremonger, Wicked (People)