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    Revelation 21

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    The new Jerusalem has twelve gates, and every one of them is a single pearl.

    A world made newvv. 1–8

    John sees a new heaven and a new earth, with the sea gone altogether—an unusually decisive bit of tidying. The holy city comes down from God like a bride, and a loud voice announces that God will dwell with humanity. Death, mourning, crying, and pain belong to the former things. The One on the throne declares all things new, gives water freely to the thirsty, and then supplies the chapter’s darker footnote: the lake burning with fire and sulfur, called the second death.

    The city with no closing timevv. 9–27

    One of the seven angels carries John to a great, high mountain and shows him Jerusalem descending from heaven, shining with the glory of God. The measuring becomes magnificently exact: the city is a perfect cube, 12,000 stadia in every direction, while its wall is 144 cubits, measured by the angel’s human measure. Its foundations glitter through twelve kinds of precious stone, its twelve gates are twelve individual pearls, and its street is gold clear as glass. There is no temple, sun, or moon; God and the Lamb are the temple and the light. The gates remain open because there is no night, though nothing unclean enters, which gives the eternal city a remarkably firm admissions policy.

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    1. Rev 21:1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

    2. Rev 21:2I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

    3. Rev 21:3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

    4. Rev 21:4‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”

    5. Rev 21:5And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”

    6. Rev 21:6And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

    7. Rev 21:7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

    8. Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

    9. Rev 21:9Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

    10. Rev 21:10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

    11. Rev 21:11shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal.

    12. Rev 21:12The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.

    13. Rev 21:13There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west.

    14. Rev 21:14The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

    15. Rev 21:15The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.

    16. Rev 21:16The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.

    17. Rev 21:17And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

    18. Rev 21:18The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.

    19. Rev 21:19The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

    20. Rev 21:20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

    21. Rev 21:21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.

    22. Rev 21:22But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

    23. Rev 21:23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.

    24. Rev 21:24By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.

    25. Rev 21:25Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.

    26. Rev 21:26And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.

    27. Rev 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

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    • 4Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
    • 4Revelation 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
    • 81 Corinthians 6:9–10Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
    • 1Isaiah 65:17–19For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
    • 41 Corinthians 15:26The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
    • 4Isaiah 60:20Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.
    • 12 Peter 3:13But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
    • 5Isaiah 42:9Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
    • 52 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
    • 3Ezekiel 37:27My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
    • 1Isaiah 66:22“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
    • 41 John 2:17The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
    • 8Revelation 2:11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
    • 32 Corinthians 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
    • 6John 7:37–38On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
    • 8Ephesians 5:5–6For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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