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¹Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.[ † ]Isaiah 65:17Isaiah 66:222 Peter 3:132 Peter 3:10Revelation 20:11 ²I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.[ † ]Isaiah 52:1Galatians 4:26Hebrews 11:10Isaiah 54:52 Corinthians 11:2

⁵And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”[ † ]Revelation 4:2-9Revelation 20:11Isaiah 43:192 Corinthians 5:17Revelation 19:9Revelation 22:6 ⁶And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.[ † ]Revelation 10:6Revelation 16:17Revelation 1:8Revelation 22:13Isaiah 12:3Isaiah 55:1John 4:10Revelation 7:17Revelation 22:17 ⁷The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.[ † ]Zechariah 8:8Hebrews 8:10

⁸But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”[ † ]1 Corinthians 6:9Galatians 5:19Ephesians 5:51 Timothy 1:9Hebrews 12:14Revelation 20:14

⁹Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”[ † ]Revelation 15:1Revelation 19:7Revelation 21:2

¹⁰And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,[ † ]Revelation 1:10Ezekiel 48 ¹¹shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal.[ † ]Isaiah 60:1Ezekiel 43:2Revelation 15:8Revelation 21:23Revelation 22:5 ¹²The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.[ † ]Ezekiel 48:31-34 ¹³There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west.[ † ]Ezekiel 48:31-34 ¹⁴The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.[ † ]Matthew 16:18Luke 22:29-30Galatians 2:9Ephesians 2:20

¹⁵The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.[ † ]Ezekiel 40:3Zechariah 2:1Revelation 11:1 ¹⁶The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height. ¹⁷And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

¹⁸The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass. ¹⁹The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,[ † ]Exodus 28:17-20Isaiah 54:11Ezekiel 28:13 ²⁰the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

²¹And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.[ † ]Matthew 13:45-46Revelation 22:2

²²But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.[ † ]Matthew 24:2John 4:21-23 ²³And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.[ † ]Isaiah 24:23Isaiah 60:19-20Revelation 21:25Revelation 22:5 ²⁴By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.[ † ]Isaiah 60:3-5Isaiah 66:12 ²⁵Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.[ † ]Isaiah 60:11Isaiah 60:20Zechariah 14:7

²⁶And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.[ † ]Revelation 21:24 ²⁷But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.[ † ]Isaiah 35:8Joel 3:17Philippians 4:3