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21:1  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea no longer existed.
21:2  I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
21:3  Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look! God's dwelling is with humanity, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.
21:4  He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will no longer exist; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the previous things have passed away.
21:5  Then the One seated on the throne said, "Look! I am making everything new." He also said, "Write, because these words are faithful and true."
21:6  And He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water as a gift to the thirsty from the spring of life.
21:7  The victor will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
21:8  But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
21:9  Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."
21:10  He then 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,
21:11  arrayed with God's glory. Her radiance was like a very precious stone, like a jasper stone, bright as crystal.
21:12  The city had a massive high wall, with 12 gates. Twelve angels were at the gates; the names of the 12 tribes of Israel's sons were inscribed on the gates.
21:13  There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
21:14  The city wall had 12 foundations, and the 12 names of the Lamb's 12 apostles were on the foundations.
21:15  The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
21:16  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. Its length, width, and height are equal.
21:17  Then he measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which the angel used.
21:18  The building material of its wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold like clear glass.
21:19  The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
21:20  the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
21:21  The 12 gates are 12 pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The broad street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
21:22  I did not see a sanctuary in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its sanctuary.
21:23  The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because God's glory illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
21:24  The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
21:25  Each day its gates will never close because it will never be night there.
21:26  They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
21:27  Nothing profane will ever enter it: no one who does what is vile or false, but only those written in the Lamb's book of life.