Revelation 21:25

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

and, the gates thereof, shall in nowise be shut, by day, - night, in fact, shall not be there, -

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The city's gates will never close on any day, because there is no night there.

Revised Standard Version
and its gates shall never be shut by day--and there shall be no night there;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And ye gates of it are not shut by daye. For there shalbe no nyght there.

Hebrew Names Version
Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

New American Standard Bible
In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed;

New Century Version
The city's gates will never be shut on any day, because there is no night there.

Update Bible Version
And the gates thereof shall in no way be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):

Webster's Bible Translation
And the gates of it shall not be shut by day: for there shall be no night there.

World English Bible
Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the gates of it shall not be shut by day: and there shall be no night there.

Weymouth's New Testament
And in the daytime (for there will be no night there) the gates will never be closed;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the yatis of it schulen not be closid bi dai; and niyt schal not be there.

English Revised Version
And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):

Berean Standard Bible
Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.

Contemporary English Version
Its gates are always open during the day, and night never comes.

Amplified Bible
By day (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed [in fear of evil];

American Standard Version
And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):

Bible in Basic English
And the doors of it will never be shut by day (for there is no night there):

Complete Jewish Bible
Its gates will never close, they stay open all day because night will not exist there,

Darby Translation
And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there.

International Standard Version
Its gates will never be shut by day, because there won't be any night there.Isaiah 60:11,20; Zechariah 14:7; Revelation 22:5;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And the gates of it shall not be shut by day, for night is not there.

Murdock Translation
And its gates shall not be shut by day; for there is no night there.

King James Version (1611)
And the gates of it shall not bee shut at all by day: for there shall bee no night there.

New Living Translation
Its gates will never be closed at the end of day because there is no night there.

New Life Bible
The gates are open all day. They will never be shut. There will be no night there.

New Revised Standard
Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.

English Standard Version
and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the gates of it shall not be shut by day: for there shalbe no night there.

George Lamsa Translation
And the gates of it shall not be barred by day: for there is no night there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day: for there shall be no night there.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the gates of it are not shut by day, for there shalbe no nyght.

Good News Translation
The gates of the city will stand open all day; they will never be closed, because there will be no night there.

Christian Standard Bible®
Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.

King James Version
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

Lexham English Bible
And its gates will never be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

Literal Translation
And its gates may not at all be shut by day, for no night will be there.

Young's Literal Translation
and its gates shall not at all be shut by day, for night shall not be there;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the gates of it shal not be shut by daye. For there shalbe no nyght there.

Mace New Testament (1729)
the gates of it shall never be shut by day: for no night shall be there.

THE MESSAGE
Everything New I saw Heaven and earth new-created. Gone the first Heaven, gone the first earth, gone the sea. I saw Holy Jerusalem, new-created, descending resplendent out of Heaven, as ready for God as a bride for her husband. I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: "Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They're his people, he's their God. He'll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good—tears gone, crying gone, pain gone—all the first order of things gone." The Enthroned continued, "Look! I'm making everything new. Write it all down—each word dependable and accurate." Then he said, "It's happened. I'm A to Z. I'm the Beginning, I'm the Conclusion. From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty. Conquerors inherit all this. I'll be God to them, they'll be sons and daughters to me. But for the rest—the feckless and faithless, degenerates and murderers, sex peddlers and sorcerers, idolaters and all liars—for them it's Lake Fire and Brimstone. Second death!" One of the Seven Angels who had carried the bowls filled with the seven final disasters spoke to me: "Come here. I'll show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb." He took me away in the Spirit to an enormous, high mountain and showed me Holy Jerusalem descending out of Heaven from God, resplendent in the bright glory of God. The City shimmered like a precious gem, light-filled, pulsing light. She had a wall majestic and high with twelve gates. At each gate stood an Angel, and on the gates were inscribed the names of the Twelve Tribes of the sons of Israel: three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, three gates on the west. The wall was set on twelve foundations, the names of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb inscribed on them. The Angel speaking with me had a gold measuring stick to measure the City, its gates, and its wall. The City was laid out in a perfect square. He measured the City with the measuring stick: twelve thousand stadia, its length, width, and height all equal. Using the standard measure, the Angel measured the thickness of its wall: 144 cubits. The wall was jasper, the color of Glory, and the City was pure gold, translucent as glass. The foundations of the City walls were garnished with every precious gem imaginable: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate a single pearl. The main street of the City was pure gold, translucent as glass. But there was no sign of a Temple, for the Lord God—the Sovereign-Strong—and the Lamb are the Temple. The City doesn't need sun or moon for light. God's Glory is its light, the Lamb its lamp! The nations will walk in its light and earth's kings bring in their splendor. Its gates will never be shut by day, and there won't be any night. They'll bring the glory and honor of the nations into the City. Nothing dirty or defiled will get into the City, and no one who defiles or deceives. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life will get in.

New English Translation
Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).

New King James Version
Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).

Simplified Cowboy Version
The gates will never be closed. There will be no night.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed;

Contextual Overview

⁹ And there came one of the seven messengers which had the seven bowls, that were full of the seven last plagues, and spake with me, saying - Hither! I will point out to thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. ¹⁰ And he carried me away, in spirit, unto a mountain great and high, and pointed out to me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God; ¹¹ having the glory of God, - her lustre, like unto a stone most precious, as a jasper stone, shining as crystal; ¹² having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and, at the gates, twelve messengers, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel, - ¹³ on the east, three gates, and, on the north, three gates, and, on the south, three gates, and, on the west, three gates; ¹⁴ and, the wall of the city, having twelve foundations, and, upon them, twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ And, he that was talking with me, had, for a measure, a reed of gold, that he might measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. ¹⁶ And, the city, four-square, lieth, and, the length thereof, is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city, with the reed, - twelve thousand furlongs: the length, and the breadth, and the height thereof, are, equal. ¹⁷ And he measured the wall thereof, - a hundred and forty-four cubits: the measure of a man, which is the measure of a messenger. ¹⁸ And, the structure of the wall thereof, was jasper, and, the city, was pure gold, like unto pure glass.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the gates: Isaiah 60:11

for: Revelation 22:5, Isaiah 60:20, Zechariah 14:7

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:5 - of shutting Ezekiel 48:31 - General Revelation 21:12 - twelve gates

Cross-References

Genesis 13:7
And there arose a strife betwixt the herdmen of Abram, and the herdmen of Lot. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite, were then dwelling in the land.

Genesis 21:15
And the water out of the skin was spent, - so she cant the child under one of the shrubs;

Genesis 21:17
And God heard the voice of the boy, and a messenger of God called unto Hagar out of the heavens; and said to her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Do not fear, for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the boy where he is.

Genesis 21:22
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech, with Phicol chieftain of his host, spake unto Abraham, saying, - God, is with thee in all that, thou art doing.

Genesis 29:8
And they said, We cannot, until that all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll away the stone, from off the mouth of the well, - and then can we water the sheep.

Judges 1:15
And she said unto him - Give me a present; for, south land, hast thou given me, give me therefore pools of water. So Caleb gave her Upper-pools, and Lower-pools.

Proverbs 17:10
A reproof sinketh more deeply into an intelligent man than a hundred stripes, into a dullard!

Proverbs 25:9
Thy contention, urge thou with thy neighbour, and, the secret of another, do not reveal:

Proverbs 27:5
Better is a rebuke that is open, than love carefully concealed.

Matthew 18:15
But, if thy brother sin, withdraw, convince him, betwixt thee and him, alone, - If unto thee he hearken, thou hast gained thy brother;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day,.... Which does not design the free communication between the living saints on the new earth, and the raised ones in the new heaven, as some have thought, for these shall be together, and make up one body; but rather the universal collection, and free admission of all the saints from all parts into this city; though it seems best to interpret it of the safety of the inhabitants, see Jeremiah 49:31 who will have no enemy to fear, and therefore need never shut their gates; the beast and false prophet will have been taken, and cast into the lake of fire long ago; ungodly men will be destroyed in the general conflagration, and Satan will be bound in the bottomless pit during the thousand years:

for there shall be no night there; this is a reason given why it is before said the gates shall not be shut by day, since it is unusual to shut gates in the day, unless in time of war, because there will be no night in this city, and so no need of ever shutting the gates; the night time being the season for thieves and robbers, and for enemies to make their incursions, and to surprise: but here will be no night; either literally, times and seasons, as measured by the revolutions of the sun and moon, will be no more, they will not have the use they have; at least this city will stand in no need of them. The Jews say c, that the world to come will be כולו יום, "all day": or mystically and figuratively, there will be no night of spiritual darkness and desertion, of drowsiness, sleepiness, and inactivity, of error and heresy, or of calamity and distress of any kind; all which are sometimes signified by night in Scripture; see Song of Solomon 3:1

Isaiah 26:9.

c Bereshit Rabba, sect. 91. fol. 79. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day - It shall be constantly open, allowing free ingress and egress to all who reside there. The language is derived from Isaiah 60:11. See the notes on that place. Applied to the future state of the blessed, it would seem to mean, that while this will be their permanent abode, yet that the dwellers there will not be prisoners. The universe will be open to them. They will be permitted to go forth and visit every world, and survey the works of God in all parts of his dominions.

For there shall be no night there - It shall be all day; all unclouded splendor. When, therefore, it is said that the gates should not be “shut by day,” it means that they would never be shut. When it is said that there would be no night there, it is, undoubtedly, to be taken as meaning that there would be no literal darkness, and nothing of which night is the emblem: no calamity, no sorrow, no bereavement, no darkened windows on account of the loss of friends and kindred. Compare the notes on Revelation 21:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. The gates of it shall not be shut at all — The Christian Church shall ever stand open to receive sinners of all sorts, degrees, and nations.

There shall be no night there. — No more idolatry, no intellectual darkness; the Scriptures shall be everywhere read, the pure word everywhere preached, and the Spirit of God shall shine and work in every heart.