Revelation 21
21
The New Heaven and the New Earth
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea no longer existed. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with men,* and He will spread His dwelling among them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them. 4 And He* will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will no longer exist, neither will there be grief, nor crying, nor pain anymore. The former things have passed away.”
5 And the One who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making everything new!” And He said, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.” 6 Then He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the one who is thirsty I will give water from the fountain of the water of life as a free gift. 7 The one who prevails will inherit these things, and I will be His God and He will be My son. 8 But as for the cowardly, and unbelieving, and detestable ones, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and magicians, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
The New Jerusalem
9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, full of 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 great and towering mountain, and showed me the holy city,* Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God.* Its brilliance is like that of a most valuable stone, like a jasper stone, shining brilliantly like crystal.* 12 It has a great and towering wall, with* twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels;* and names are inscribed on the gates,* which are the names* of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel— 13 on the east, three gates; and on the north, three gates; and on the south, three gates; and on the west, three gates. 14 And the city’s wall has twelve foundations, and on them are twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 And the one who spoke with me was holding a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and its wall.* 16 And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is the same as its width; and he measured the city with the rod at twelve thousand stadia; the length and the width and the height of it are equal. 17 And he measured its wall, one hundred and forty-four* cubits, according to human measurement, which is also the measurement used by an angel.* 18 And the material of its wall is jasper, and the city is pure gold, like clear glass. 19 The foundations of the city’s wall are adorned with every variety of precious stone. The first foundation is 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 eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each one of the gates was made* from a single pearl. And the street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
22 And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb. 23 And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God provides light to it, and the lamp of it is the Lamb. 24 And the nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory* into it. 25 And its gates will never be closed by night, for there will be no night there; 26 and they will bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it. 27 And every defiled thing and the one who practises what is detestable and falsehood will never enter it, except those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.
Notes
3 Or people, as the term may be understood in a generic sense
4 Three ancient Greek manuscripts read the name God
10 Some ancient manuscripts read the great holy city
11 Two ancient Greek manuscripts omits the participial phrase having the glory of God
11 Some ancient manuscripts read Her brilliance is like that of a most valuable stone, a jasper, shining brilliantly like crystal
12 Greek having
12 Some ancient manuscripts omit the expression and at the gates twelve angels
12 The noun phrase the gates is supplied to the text on a contextual basis for the purpose of clarification
12 Some ancient manuscripts omit the noun phrase the names
15 Some ancient manuscripts omit the expression and its wall
17 Greek one hundred forty-four
17 Greek measurement of man, that is, of angel
21 The verb made is supplied to the text on a contextual basis for the purpose of clarification
24 Greek the glory
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Copyright © 2026 Michael Adeyemi Adegbola. This Scripture text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
