¹ I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

² I¹ saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

1. TR Vg add "John"

³ I heard a loud voice from the throne¹ saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them².

1. NU Vg. M TR P Ph read "out of heaven" instead of "from the throne"
2. M TR add "as their God"

⁴ He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."

⁵ He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said¹, "Write, for these words are faithful and true."

1. M TR add "to me"

⁶ He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

⁷ He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

⁸ But for the cowardly, unbelieving,¹ abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

1. M P add "sinners"

⁹ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, full of the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."

¹⁰ He 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,

¹¹ having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it was a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

¹² having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

¹³ On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.

¹⁶ The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand¹ stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.

1. M P add "twelve." Twelve thousand stadia are about 1400 miles

¹⁷ Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits,¹ by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

1. 144 cubits is about 65.8 meters or 216 feet

¹⁸ The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.

¹⁹ The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire¹; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

1. Or, "lapis lazuli"

²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.

²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

²² I saw no temple in it, for Jehovah God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.

²³ The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

²⁴ The nations will walk¹ in its light. The kings of the earth bring their splendor² into it.

1. TR reads "nations of the saved will walk" instead of "nations will walk"
2. TR Vg read "splendor and honor into it" instead of "splendor into it." M reads "the splender and honor of the nations" instead of "their splendor"

²⁵ Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

²⁶ and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.

²⁷ There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.