Revelation
21:1-26
Then I saw a new heaven and a new
earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no
longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a
loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among
men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God
Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes;
and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or
crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
And He who sits on the throne said,
“Behold, I am making all things new.” And He *said, “Write, for these words are
faithful and true.” Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the
spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes will inherit these
things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. But for the cowardly and
unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and
idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire
and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Then one of the seven angels who had
the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying,
“Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me
away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city,
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her
brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. It
had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels;
and names were written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the
sons of Israel. There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north
and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. And the wall of the
city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the
twelve apostles of the Lamb.
The one who spoke with me had a gold
measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall. The city is laid
out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the
city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are
equal. And he measured its wall, seventy-two yards, according to human
measurements, which are also angelic measurements. The material of the wall was
jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundation stones of
the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first
foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the
fourth, emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,
chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the
eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve
pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city
was pure gold, like transparent glass.
I saw no temple in it, for the Lord
God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of the
sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and
its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the
earth will bring their glory into it. In the daytime (for there will be no
night there) its gates will never be closed; and they will bring the glory and
the honor of the nations into it; and nothing unclean, and no one who practices
abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are
written in the Lamb’s book of life. (NASB)
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