A New Heaven and a New Earth
(Isaiah 65:17–25)

1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and first earth passed away; and the sea was no more. 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold the tent of God with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God. 4And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed.

5And he sitting upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6And he said to me, It has been. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him thirsting of the fountain of the water of life gratuitously. 7He conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be God to him, and he shall be son to me. 8But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

The New Jerusalem

9And there came to me one of the seven angels having the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

10And he brought me away in the spirit upon a mountain great and high, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11Having the glory of God: and her luminary like a most precious stone, as jasper stone, shining like crystal; 12And having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and the names inscribed, which are of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel: 13From the sunrising three gates; from the north three gates; from the south three gates; and from the sun-setting three gates. 14And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve sent of the Lamb.

15And he speaking with me had a golden reed that he might measure the city, and her gates, and her wall. 16And the city lies quadrangular, and her length is so large, such also the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, at twelve thousand stadia. Her length, breadth, and height are equal. 17And he measured her wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is the angel. 18And the interior construction of her wall was a jasper: and the city pure gold, like pure crystal. 19And the foundations of the wall of the city adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation a jasper; the second, a sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth an emerald: 20The fifth, a sardonyx; the sixth, a sardius; the seventh, a chrysolyte; the eighth, a beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a hyacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 21And the twelve gates twelve pearls; each one of the gates was of one pearl: and the broad way of the city pure gold, as transparent amber.

22And a temple saw I not in her: for the Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, is the temple and the Lamb. 23And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they shine in her: for the glory of God enlightened her, and her light the Lamb. 24And the nations of the saved shall walk about in her light: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into her. 25And her gates should not be shut by day: for no night shall be there. 26And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into her. 27And there came not into her anything common, and any doing abomination, and a lie: but they written in the book of life of the Lamb.