The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Revelation 21
1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth,
for the first heaven and the first earth have
passed away, and the sea is no more.
2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared like a bride adorned for
her husband.
3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying,
“Behold, God’s dwelling is withpeople;
and he will dwell with them, and they will
be his people, and God himself will be with
them as their God.
4 He will wipe away every tear fromtheir
eyes. Death will be no more; neither will
there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain
any more. The first things have passed
away.”
5 He who sits on the throne said, “Behold,
I am making all things new.” He said,
“Write, for these words of God are faithful
and true.”
6 He said to me, “I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will
give freely to him who is thirsty from the
spring of the water of life.
7 He who overcomes, I will give him
these things. I will be his God, and he will
be my son.
8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving,
sinners,† abominable, murderers, sexually
immoral, sorcerers,‡ idolaters, and all
liars, their part is in the lake that burns
with fire and sulfur, which is the second
death.”
9 One of the seven angels who had the
seven bowls which were loaded with the
sevenlast plagues came, andhe spoke with
me, saying, “Come here. I will show you
the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
10 He 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 having the glory of God. Her light was
like a most precious stone, like a jasper
stone, clear as crystal;
12 having a great and high wall with
twelve gates, and at the gates twelve
angels, and names written on them, which
are the names of the twelve tribes of the
children 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 The wall of the city had twelve foundations,
and on them twelve names of the
twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
15 He who spoke with me had for a
measure a golden reed to measure
the city, its gates, and its walls.
16 The city is square. Its length is
as great as its width. He measured
the city with the reed: twelve
thousand twelve stadia.§ Its
length, width, and height are equal.
17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits,†
by the measure of a man, that is, of
an angel.
18 The construction ofits wall was jasper.
The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
19 The foundations ofthe city’s wall were
adorned with all kinds of precious stones.
The firstfoundation was jasper, the second
sapphire;‡ the third chalcedony, the fourth
emerald,
20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius,
the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl,
the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the
eleventhjacinth, and the twelfthamethyst.
21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls.
Each one of the gates was made of one
pearl. The street of the city was pure gold,
like transparent glass.
22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God
the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 The city has no need for the sun or
moon to shine, for the very glory of God
illuminated it and its lamp is the Lamb.
24 The nations will walk in its light. The
kings of the earth bring the glory and
honor of the nations into it.
25 Its gates will in no way be shut by day
(for there will be no night there),
26 and they shall bring the glory and the
honor of the nations into it so that they
may enter.
27 There will in no way enter into it
anything profane, or one who causes an
abomination or a lie, but only those who
are written in the Lamb’s book of life