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Revelation 21 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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The New Creation
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Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

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I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

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Then I heard a loud voice from the throne:[fn] Look, God’s dwelling[fn] is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples,[fn] and God himself will be with them and will be their God.[fn]

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He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things[fn] have passed away.

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Then the one seated on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words[fn] are faithful and true.”

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Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give to the thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

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“The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son.

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“But the cowards, faithless,[fn] detestable, 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.”

The New Jerusalem
(cf. Eze 48:30–35 )
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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.”

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He then carried me away in the Spirit[fn] to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

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arrayed with God’s glory. Her radiance was like a precious jewel, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.

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The city had a massive high wall, with twelve gates. Twelve angels were at the gates; the names of the twelve tribes of Israel’s sons were inscribed on the gates.

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There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.

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The city wall had twelve foundations, and the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb were on the foundations.

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The one who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.

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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.[fn] Its length, width, and height are equal.

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Then he measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which the angel used.

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The building material of its wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold clear as glass.

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The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of jewel: the first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

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the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.

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The twelve gates are twelve pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The main street[fn] of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.

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I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

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The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

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The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.[fn]

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Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.

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They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.[fn]

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Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.

CSB Footnotes
Other mss read from heaven
Or tent, or tabernacle
Other mss read people
Other mss omit and will be their God
Or the first things
Other mss add of God
Other mss add the sinful,
Or in spirit
A stadion (sg) = about 600 feet; 12,000 stadia = 1,400 miles.
Or The public square
Other mss read will bring to him the nations’ glory and honor
Other mss add in order that they might go in
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