| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea no longer existed. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look! God's dwelling is with humanity, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will no longer exist; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the previous things have passed away. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then the One seated on the throne said, "Look! I am making everything new." He also said, "Write, because these words are faithful and true." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water as a gift to the thirsty from the spring of life. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The victor will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He then 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, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11arrayed with God's glory. Her radiance was like a very precious stone, like a jasper stone, bright as crystal. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The city had a massive high wall, with 12 gates. Twelve angels were at the gates; the names of the 12 tribes of Israel's sons were inscribed on the gates. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The city wall had 12 foundations, and the 12 names of the Lamb's 12 apostles were on the foundations. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The city is laid out in a square; its length and width are the same. He measured the city with the rod at 12,000 stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then he measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which the angel used. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The building material of its wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold like clear glass. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The 12 gates are 12 pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The broad street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22I did not see a sanctuary in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its sanctuary. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because God's glory illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Each day its gates will never close because it will never be night there. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Nothing profane will ever enter it: no one who does what is vile or false, but only those written in the Lamb's book of life. |
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