Revelation 21:1-14 ▼

1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth passed away; and the sea is no more.

2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride is adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a great voice speaking from the throne, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with the people, and he will tabernacle with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them:

4 and he will wipe every tear out of their eyes; and there will be no more death, neither will there be any more sorrow, nor crying, nor pain: because the former things have passed away.

5 And the one sitting on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says, Write: that these words are faithful and true.

6 And he said to me, They are done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. To him who thirsts I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely.

7 The one conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be to him God, and he shall be to me a son.

8 But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the fornicators, and the sorcerers, and the idolaters, and all liars, shall be their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

9 And one of the seven angels having the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,

11 having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone most precious, as a crystalline, jasper stone;

12 having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written upon them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.

13 From the east, three gates; and from the north, three gates; and from the south, three gates; and from the west, three gates.

14 And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.