Revelation 21 - 22
The New Heaven and Earth
21Then I saw aa new heaven and a new earth; for bthe first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. 2And I saw athe holy city, bnew Jerusalem, ccoming down out of heaven from God, dmade ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, athe tabernacle of God is among men, and He will 1,bdwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among 2them, 4and He will awipe away every tear from their eyes; and bthere will no longer be any death; cthere will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain. dThe first things passed away.”
5And aHe who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am bmaking all things new.” And He *said, “Write, for cthese words are faithful and true.” 6Then He said to me, “aThey are done. I am the bAlpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. cI will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the dwater of life without cost. 7“aHe who overcomes will inherit these things, and bI will be his God and he will be My son. 8“aBut for the cowardly and 1unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in bthe lake that burns with fire and 2brimstone, which is the csecond death.”
9aThen one of the seven angels who have the bseven bowls 1full of the cseven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “dCome here, I will show you the ebride, the wife of the Lamb.”
New Jerusalem, the Holy City
10And ahe carried me away 1,bin the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me cthe holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11having athe glory of God. Her 1brilliance was like precious stone, as a bstone of ccrystal-clear jasper. 121It had a great and high wall. 2It had atwelve bgates and at those gates, twelve angels; and names 3have been written on those gates, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. 13There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. 14And the wall of the city had atwelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the btwelve apostles of the Lamb.
15And the one who spoke with me had a 1gold measuring arod to measure the city and its bgates and its wall. 16And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the 1rod, 212,000 stadia; its length and width and height are equal. 17And he measured its wall, 1144 cubits, according to ahuman 2measurements, which are also bangelic measurements. 18And the material of the wall was ajasper, and the city was bpure gold, like pure cglass. 19aThe foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was bjasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, cemerald; 20the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, asardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21And the twelve agates were twelve bpearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was cpure gold, like transparent dglass.
22And I saw ano sanctuary in it, for the bLord God the Almighty and the cLamb are its sanctuary. 23And the city ahas no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for bthe glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the cLamb. 24aAnd the nations will walk by its light, and the bkings of the earth 1will bring their glory into it. 25aAnd its gates bwill never be closed by day, for cthere will be no night there; 26and athey will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. 27And anothing defiled, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those 1whose names are bwritten in the Lamb’s book of life.
The River and the Tree of Life
22Then ahe showed me a briver of the cwater of life, bright das crystal, coming from the throne of God and of 1the Lamb, 2in the middle of aits street. bOn either side of the river was cthe tree of life, bearing twelve 1kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3aAnd there will no longer be any curse; and bthe throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His slaves will cserve Him; 4and they will asee His face, and His bname will be on their cforeheads. 5And athere will no longer be any night, and they 1will not have need bof the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them, and they will creign forever and ever.
6And ahe said to me, “bThese words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the cGod of the spirits of the prophets, dsent His angel to show to His slaves the things which must soon take place.
7“And behold, aI am coming quickly. bBlessed is he who keeps cthe words of the prophecy of this book.”
8aI, John, am the one who was hearing and seeing these things. And when I heard and saw, bI fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things. 9But ahe *said to me, “1Do not do that! I am a bfellow slave with you and your brothers the prophets and with those who keep the words of cthis book. Worship God!”
The Final Message: Come
10And he *said to me, “aDo not seal up bthe words of the prophecy of this book, cfor the time is near. 11“aLet the one who does unrighteousness, still do unrighteousness; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still do righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.”
12“Behold, aI am coming quickly, and My breward is with Me, cto render to every man 1according to his work. 13“I am the aAlpha and the Omega, bthe first and the last, cthe beginning and the end.”
14Blessed are those who awash their robes, so that they may have the authority to bthe tree of life and may center by the dgates into the city. 15aOutside are the bdogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.
16“aI, Jesus, sent bMy angel to bear witness to you of these things 1,cfor the churches. I am dthe root and the edescendant of David, the bright fmorning star.”
17And the aSpirit and the bbride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And clet the one who is thirsty come. Let the one who wishes receive the dwater of life without cost.
18I bear witness to everyone who hears athe words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone badds to them, God will add to him cthe plagues which are written in dthis book. 19And if anyone atakes away from the bwords of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from cthe tree of life and 1from the holy city, dwhich are written in this book.