Revelation 21

1I 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.Cross-references: Isa 27:1 · Isa 57:20 · Isa 65:17 · Isa 66:22 · Dan 7:3 · 2Pet 3:10 · +4 more

2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.Cross-references: Ps 45:9 · Ps 48:1 · Ps 87:3 · Isa 1:21 · Isa 52:1 · Isa 54:5 · +19 more

3I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Lev 26:11 · 1Ki 8:27 · 2Chr 6:18 · Isa 12:6 · Jer 31:33 · +16 more

4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”Cross-references: Ps 144:4 · Isa 25:8 · Isa 30:19 · Isa 35:10 · Isa 51:11 · Isa 60:20 · +16 more

5He 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.”Cross-references: Isa 42:9 · Isa 43:19 · 2Cor 5:17 · Rev 1:11 · Rev 1:19 · Rev 4:2 · +5 more

6He 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.Cross-references: Ps 36:9 · Isa 12:3 · Isa 55:1 · Jer 2:13 · Hos 14:4 · Joel 3:18 · +18 more

7He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:8 · Prov 3:35 · Isa 65:9 · Zech 8:8 · Matt 19:29 · Matt 25:34 · +13 more

8But 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.”Cross-references: Deut 20:8 · Judg 7:3 · Prov 19:5 · Prov 19:9 · Isa 9:15 · Isa 51:12 · +27 more

9One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls which were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”Cross-references: Rev 15:1 · Rev 16:1 · Rev 17:1 · Rev 19:7 · Rev 21:2

10He 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,Cross-references: 1Ki 18:12 · 2Ki 2:16 · Ezek 3:14 · Ezek 8:3 · Ezek 11:1 · Ezek 11:24 · +8 more

11having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;Cross-references: Job 28:17 · Isa 4:5 · Isa 60:1 · Isa 60:19 · Ezek 1:22 · Ezek 1:26 · +11 more

12having 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.Cross-references: Num 2:2 · Ezra 9:9 · Neh 12:27 · Ps 51:18 · Ps 122:7 · Isa 54:12 · +10 more

13On the east were three gates, and on the north three gates, and on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.Cross-references: Ezek 48:31

14The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.Cross-references: Isa 54:11 · Matt 10:2 · Matt 16:18 · 1Cor 3:10 · Gal 2:9 · Eph 2:20 · +6 more

15He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.Cross-references: Ex 40:3 · Ezek 41:1 · Zech 2:1 · Rev 11:1

16The 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.Cross-references: Ezek 48:8 · Ezek 48:35

17Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.Cross-references: Deut 3:11 · Rev 7:4 · Rev 13:18 · Rev 14:3 · Rev 21:9

18The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.Cross-references: Rev 21:11 · Rev 21:19 · Rev 21:21

19The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,Cross-references: Ex 28:17 · Ex 29:10 · Job 28:16 · Prov 3:15 · Isa 54:11

20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.Cross-references: Rev 4:3

21The 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 6:20 · Isa 60:17 · Matt 13:45 · Rev 17:4 · Rev 18:16 · Rev 21:11 · +2 more

22I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:27 · 2Chr 2:6 · 2Chr 6:18 · Isa 66:1 · John 2:19 · John 4:21 · +14 more

23The 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.Cross-references: Isa 2:10 · Isa 2:19 · Isa 2:21 · Isa 24:23 · Isa 60:19 · Hab 3:3 · +14 more

24The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.Cross-references: Deut 32:43 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 72:10 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 2:5 · Isa 52:15 · +15 more

25Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),Cross-references: Isa 60:11 · Isa 60:20 · Zech 14:7 · Rev 21:23 · Rev 22:5

26and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.Cross-references: Rev 21:24

27There 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.Cross-references: Lev 13:46 · Num 5:3 · Num 12:15 · Ps 101:8 · Isa 35:8 · Isa 52:1 · +17 more