ULT REV chapter 21

21 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had gone away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice from the throne saying, “Behold! The tabernacle of God is with men, and he will tabernacle with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them.[fn] 4 And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not be any longer, nor grieving, nor crying, nor pain. They will not be any longer; the first things have gone away.” 5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Behold! I make all things new.” And he says to me, “Write, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 6 And he said to me, “It has happened! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one thirsting I will give freely from the spring of the water of life. 7 The one conquering will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son. 8 But for the cowardly and the unbelieving and the abhorred and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

9 And one of the seven angels holding the seven bowls being full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and he showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God, its brilliance being like a most precious stone, like a stone of jasper shining like crystal. 12 having a great and high wall having 12 gates and 12 angels at the gates and names having been written that are the 12 tribes of the sons of Israel. 13 On the east were three gates, and on the north were three gates, and on the south were three gates, and on the west were three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had 12 foundations, and on them were the 12 names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb. 15 And the one speaking with me had a golden measuring rod so that he might measure the city and her gates and her wall. 16 And the city is laid out square, and her length is as much as the width. And he measured the city with the rod to 12,000 stadia: Her length and width and height are equal. 17 And he measured her wall, 144 cubits by the measurement of a man, which is of an angel. 18 And the material of her wall is jasper, and the city is pure gold, like pure glass. 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 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 And the 12 gates were 12 pearls; each one of the gates individually was from one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. 22 And I saw no temple in her, for the Lord God, the Ruler of All, is her temple, and the Lamb. 23 And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they might illumine her, for the glory of God illumined her, and her lamp is the Lamb. 24 And the nations will walk by the light of her, and the kings of the earth bring their glory into her.[fn] 25 And her gates will certainly not be shut by day, for night will not be there. 26 And they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into her, 27 but everything unclean will certainly not enter into her and the one doing abomination and falsehood, if not the ones having been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb.

Some manuscripts add as their God, but the best manuscripts do not.

Some older copies read The nations that are saved will walk by the light of that city.

ULT REV Chapter 21