Thematic Bible
Revelation 21:1 (show verse)
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
Revelation 21:2 (show verse)
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:3 (show verse)
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. And he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them;
Revelation 21:4 (show verse)
he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away."
Revelation 21:5 (show verse)
And he who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." And he said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true."
Revelation 21:6 (show verse)
Then he said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life without cost.
Revelation 21:7 (show verse)
He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
Revelation 21:8 (show verse)
But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the immoral, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
Revelation 21:9 (show verse)
Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke to me, saying, "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."
Revelation 21:10 (show verse)
And he 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,
Revelation 21:11 (show verse)
having the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
Revelation 21:12 (show verse)
It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.
Revelation 21:13 (show verse)
There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
Revelation 21:14 (show verse)
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Revelation 21:15 (show verse)
The one who talked with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its walls.
Revelation 21:16 (show verse)
The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length and width and height are equal.
Revelation 21:17 (show verse)
He also measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits by a man's measure, which is also an angel's.
Revelation 21:18 (show verse)
The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as clear as glass.
Revelation 21:19 (show verse)
The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
Revelation 21:20 (show verse)
the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
Revelation 21:21 (show verse)
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
Revelation 21:22 (show verse)
And I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
Revelation 21:23 (show verse)
And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
Revelation 21:24 (show verse)
The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
Revelation 21:25 (show verse)
In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be shut;
Revelation 21:26 (show verse)
they will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
Revelation 21:27 (show verse)
Nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.