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1Then 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.[#Isa 65.17; 2 Pet 3.13; Rev 20.11]
2And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.[#Heb 11.10; 12.22; Rev 3.12]
3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,[#Ezek 37.27; 2 Cor 6.16; Rev 7.15]
“See, the home of God is among mortals.
He will dwell with them;
they will be his peoples,
and God himself will be with them and be their God;
4he will wipe every tear from their eyes.[#Isa 35.10; 65.19; 1 Cor 15.26; Rev 7.17; 20.14]
Death will be no more;
mourning and crying and pain will be no more,
for 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.”[#Isa 43.19; Rev 4.9; 19.9; 20.11]
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.[#Jn 4.10; Rev 1.8; 16.17; 22.13]
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, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, 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.”[#Heb 12.14; Rev 2.11; 19.20; 22.15; #21.8 Or the unbelieving; #21.8 Or prostitutes]
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.”[#Rev 15.1, 6, 7; 20.14ff]
10And in the spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.[#Ezek 40.2; Rev 1.10; 17.3; #21.10 Or in the Spirit]
11It has the glory of God and a radiance like a very rare jewel, like jasper, clear as crystal.[#Rev 4.6; 15.8; 22.5]
12It 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 of the twelve tribes of the Israelites:[#Ezek 48.31–34; #21.12 Other ancient authorities lack that are the names]
13on 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.[#Mt 16.18; Eph 2.20]
15The angel who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.[#Rev 11.1; #21.15 Gk He]
16The 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.[#Isa 24.23; 60.19, 20; Rev 22.5]
24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.[#Isa 60.3, 5]
25Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.[#Isa 60.11; Zech 14.7; Rev 22.5]
26People 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.[#Isa 52.1; Joel 3.17; Rev 3.5; 22.14]