Revelation 21:1-19 ▼

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, descending out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying: “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

4 ‘And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and death will be no more, nor mourning nor crying nor pain; they will be no more, because the first things passed away.”

5 And the One sitting on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He says, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.”

6 And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one thirsting, I will give of the spring of the water of life freely.

7 The one overcoming will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part is in the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

9 And one of the seven angels having the seven bowls being 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.”

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

11 having the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone being clear as crystal,

12 having a great and high wall, having twelve gates, and on the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.

13 On the east were three gates, and on the north three gates, and on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.

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

15 And the one speaking with me had a golden measuring reed, so that he might measure the city and its gates and its wall.

16 And the city lies foursquare, and its length the same as also the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed at twelve thousand stadia. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

17 And he measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of man, that is, of the angel.

18 And the structure of its wall was jasper, and the city pure gold, like clear glass,

19 the foundations of the wall of the city adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,