Revelation 21:1-10 ▼

1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and earth had disappeared, and the sea was gone.

2 Then I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, dressed like a bride ready for her husband.

3 I heard a loud voice from the throne say, |God lives with humans! God will make his home with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them and be their God.

4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There won't be any more death. There won't be any grief, crying, or pain, because the first things have disappeared.|

5 The one sitting on the throne said, |I am making everything new.| He said, |Write this: 'These words are faithful and true.'|

6 He said to me, |It has happened! I am the A and the Z, the beginning and the end. I will give a drink from the fountain filled with the water of life to anyone who is thirsty. It won't cost anything.

7 Everyone who wins the victory will inherit these things. I will be their God, and they will be my children.

8 But cowardly, unfaithful, and detestable people, murderers, sexual sinners, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.|

9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the last seven plagues came to me and said, |Come! I will show you the bride, the wife of the lamb.|

10 He carried me by his power away to a large, high mountain. He showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven.