Revelation 21

¹ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now,and there was no longer any sea.

² I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bridedressed for her husband.

³ Then I heard a loud voice cal from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He willmake his home among them; they will be his people, and he wil be their God, God-with-them.

⁴ He wil wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning orsadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.'

⁵ Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this,"What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true."

⁶ Then he said to me, 'It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and theEnd. I wil give water from the wel of life free to anybody who is thirsty;

⁷ anyone who proves victorious wil inherit these things; and I will be his God and he wil be my son.

⁸ But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers andthe sexual y immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second deathin the burning lake of sulphur.'

⁹ One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls ful of the seven final plagues came to speak to meand said, 'Come here and I wil show you the bride that the Lamb has married.'

¹⁰ In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holycity, coming down out of heaven from God.

¹¹ It had al the glory of God and glittered like some precious jewel of crystal-clear diamond.

¹² Its wal was of a great height and had twelve gates; at each of the twelve gates there was an angel, and over the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel;

¹³ on the east there were three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on thewest three gates.

¹⁴ The city wal s stood on twelve foundation stones, each one of which bore the name of one of thetwelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ The angel that was speaking to me was carrying a gold measuring rod to measure the city and itsgates and wal .

¹⁶ The plan of the city is perfectly square, its length the same as its breadth. He measured the city withhis rod and it was twelve thousand furlongs, equal in length and in breadth, and equal in height.

¹⁷ He measured its wal , and this was a hundred and forty-four cubits high -- by human measurements.

¹⁸ The wall was built of diamond, and the city of pure gold, like clear glass.

¹⁹ The foundations of the city wall were faced with al kinds of precious stone: the first with diamond, thesecond lapis lazuli, the third turquoise, the fourth crystal,

²⁰ the fifth agate, the sixth ruby, the seventh gold quartz, the eighth malachite, the ninth topaz, the tenthemerald, the eleventh sapphire and the twelfth amethyst.

²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate being made of a single pearl, and the main street ofthe city was pure gold, transparent as glass.

²² I could not see any temple in the city since the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb were themselvesthe temple,

²³ and the city did not need the sun or the moon for light, since it was lit by the radiant glory of God, andthe Lamb was a lighted torch for it.

²⁴ The nations wil come to its light and the kings of the earth wil bring it their treasures.

²⁵ Its gates will never be closed by day -- and there will be no night there-

²⁶ and the nations wil come, bringing their treasure and their wealth.

²⁷ Nothing unclean may come into it: no one who does what is loathsome or false, but only those whoare listed in the Lamb's book of life.