AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (2)And I John
saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (3)And I heard a
loud voice from heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with
men, and he shall pitch his tent with them, and they shall be his
people, and God himself shall be with them, their own God. (4)And God
shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more;
nor shall mourning, nor crying, nor toil be any more: because the
former things are passed away. (5)And he that sat upon the throne said,
Lo! I make all things new: and he said unto me, Write that these
sayings are true and faithful. (6)And he said to me, It is done. I am
the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; I will give to him
that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (7)He that
overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be to him a God, and he
shall be to me a son. (8)But to those who shrink back through fear, and
to the infidels, and to the abominable, and to murderers, and to
whoremongers, and to those who use magical incantations, and to
idolaters, and to all liars, is their portion _appointed_ in the lake
which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
(9)And there came to me one of the seven angels who held the seven
vases full of the seven last plagues, and he talked with me, saying,
Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. (10)And he
bore me away in spirit unto a great and exceeding high mountain, and
shewed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
from God, (11)having the glory of God: and her brilliance was like the
most precious gem, as a jasper stone, transparent as crystal; (12)and
she had a great wall and lofty, having twelve gates, and at the gates
twelve angels, and names inscribed on them, which are those of the
twelve tribes of the children of Israel. (13)From the east three gates;
from the north three gates; from the south three gates; from the west
three gates. (14)And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and
on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (15)And he that
talked with me held a golden cane to measure the city, and the gates
thereof, and the wall thereof. (16)And the city is a quadrangle, and
the breadth of it is just as much as the length of it; and he measured
the city with the cane, twelve thousand furlongs: the breadth, and the
length, and the height of it, are exactly proportioned. (17)He measured
also the wall of it a hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the
measure of a man, for such is that of an angel.
(18)The structure of the wall of it was jasper, and the city pure gold,
like clear glass. (19)And the foundations of the walls of the city were
adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation a jasper; the
second a sapphire; the third a chalcedony; the fourth an emerald;
(20)the fifth a sardonyx; the sixth a sardius; the seventh a
chrysolite; the eighth a beryl; the ninth a topaz; the tenth a
chrysoprasus; the eleventh a jacinth; the twelfth an amethyst. (21)And
the twelve gates were twelve several pearls; every one of the gates was
of one pearl; and the street of the city was pure gold, as transparent
glass.
(22)And I saw no temple therein; for the Lord God Almighty is the
temple thereof, even the Lamb. (23)And the city had no need of the sun,
neither of the moon to shine upon it: for the glory of God illuminates
it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof. (24)And the nations of those that
are saved shall walk about in the light thereof; and the kings of the
earth shall bring their glory and their honour into it; (25)and her
gates shall be never shut by day (for there is no night there); (26)and
they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it.
(27)And there shall no more enter into it any thing unclean, or that
practises abomination and lying; but only those who are written in the
book of life of the Lamb.