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The New Creation

¹ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth;^(C1) for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,^(C2) and the sea was no more.^{(C3) 2} I also saw the holy city,^(C1) the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,^(C2) prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.^(C3)

³ Then I heard a loud voice^(C1) from the throne:^(F1)(C2) Look, God’s dwelling^(F2) is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples,^(F3)(C3) and God himself will be with them and will be their God.^{(F4) 4} He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.^(C1) Death will be no more;^(C2) grief, crying, and pain will be no more,^(C3) because the previous things^(F1) have passed away.^(C4)

⁵ Then the one seated on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words^(F1) are faithful and true.”^{(C1) 6} Then he said to me, “It is done!^(C1) I am the Alpha and the Omega,^(C2) the beginning and the end.^(C3) I will freely give to the thirsty^(C4) from the spring of the water of life.^{(C5) 7} The one who conquers^(C1) will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son.^{(C2) 8} But the cowards, faithless,^(F1) detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars^(C1)—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur,^(C2) which is the second death.”^(C3)

The New Jerusalem

⁹ Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues,^(C1) came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰ He then carried me away in the Spirit^(F1)(C1) to a great, high mountain^(C2) and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ arrayed with God’s glory.^(C1) Her radiance was like a precious jewel, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. ¹² The city had a massive high wall, with twelve gates. Twelve angels were at the gates; the names of the twelve tribes of Israel’s sons were inscribed on the gates. ¹³ There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.^{(C1) 14} The city wall had twelve foundations, and the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb were on the foundations.

¹⁵ The one who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod^(C1) to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.^{(C2) 16} The city is laid out in a square; its length and width are the same. He measured the city with the rod at 12,000 stadia.^(F1) Its length, width, and height are equal. ¹⁷ Then he measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which the angel used. ¹⁸ The building material of its wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold clear as glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of jewel:^(C1) the first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates are twelve pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The main street^(F1) of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.

²² I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.^{(C1) 24} The nations^(F1) will walk by its light,^(C1) and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.^{(F2)(C2) 25} Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.^{(C1) 26} They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.^{(F1)(C1) 27} Nothing unclean will ever enter it,^(C1) nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.^(C2)