Revelation 21 (NET)

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Revelation 21:1¹Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 65:17-19 2 Pet 3:13 Isa 66:22 Rev 21:5 2 Pet 3:10 Rev 20:11

Revelation 21:2²And I saw the holy city—the new Jerusalem—descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 11:10 Rev 3:12 Rev 21:10 Heb 13:14 Isa 61:10 Heb 12:22 Rev 19:7-8 Rev 22:19 2 Cor 11:2 Eph 5:25-27

Revelation 21:3³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 37:27 2 Cor 6:16 John 14:23 Lev 26:11-12 Zech 8:8 Heb 8:10 Jer 31:33 Jer 32:38 Gen 17:7-8 Heb 11:16

Revelation 21:4⁴He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more—or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 25:8 Rev 7:17 1 Cor 15:26 Isa 35:10 Isa 60:20 1 John 2:17 Isa 65:18-19 Isa 51:11 Jer 31:13 Matt 24:35

Revelation 21:5⁵And the one seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new!” Then he said to me, “Write it down, because these words are reliable and true.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:17 Isa 42:9 Isa 43:19 Rev 19:9 Rev 20:11 Rev 22:6 Rev 4:2 Rev 1:19 Rev 4:9 Rev 1:11

Revelation 21:6⁶He also said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water free of charge from the spring of the water of life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:37-38 John 4:10 Rev 7:17 John 4:14 Ps 36:9 Rom 8:32 Isa 55:1-3 Rev 1:8 Rev 22:17 Rev 16:17

Revelation 21:7⁷The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 6:18 Heb 8:10 Rev 2:11 Rev 21:3 1 John 3:1-3 Matt 25:34 1 Pet 1:3-4 Rom 8:15-17 Matt 19:29 Rev 2:17

Revelation 21:8⁸But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 6:9-10 Rev 2:11 Eph 5:5-6 Rev 22:15 Rev 20:14-15 Gal 5:19-21 1 John 3:15 John 12:42-43 Prov 19:9 1 Cor 10:20-21

Revelation 21:9⁹Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 19:7 Rev 21:2 Rev 16:1-17 Rev 17:1 Rev 15:1-7

Revelation 21:10¹⁰So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 21:2 Ezek 11:24 2 Cor 12:2-4 Acts 8:39 Ezek 11:1 Ezek 40:1-49 Ezek 8:3 Rev 1:10 Rev 17:3 Ezek 3:14

Revelation 21:11¹¹The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 22:5 Rev 4:6 Rev 22:1 Rev 21:18-19 Ezek 1:26 Isa 60:19-20 Rev 4:3 Ezek 28:13-14 Ezek 48:35 Isa 4:5

Revelation 21:12¹²It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 48:31-34 Rev 21:17-21 Rev 7:4-8 Isa 54:12 Rev 21:25 Ps 122:7 Isa 60:18 Neh 12:27 Num 2:2-32 Ps 51:18

Revelation 21:13¹³There are three gates on the east side, three gates on the north side, three gates on the south side and three gates on the west side.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 48:31-34

Revelation 21:14¹⁴The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 11:10 Eph 2:20 Isa 54:11 Rev 21:19-21 1 Cor 3:10-11 Eph 3:5 Jude 1:17 Matt 10:2-4 Matt 16:18 Rev 18:20

Revelation 21:15¹⁵The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 11:1-2 Zech 2:1 Ezek 41:1-5 Exod 40:3-5

Revelation 21:16¹⁶Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at 1,400 miles (its length and width and height are equal).Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 48:35 Ezek 48:8-20

Revelation 21:17¹⁷He also measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 3:11 Rev 13:18 Rev 7:4 Rev 14:3 Rev 21:9

Revelation 21:18¹⁸The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 21:11 Rev 21:21 Rev 21:19

Revelation 21:19¹⁹The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 54:11-12 Exod 28:17-21 Job 28:16-19 Prov 3:15

Revelation 21:20²⁰the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 4:3

Revelation 21:21²¹And the twelve gates are twelve pearls—each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 21:18 Rev 17:4 Rev 22:2 Matt 13:45-46 Rev 18:16 Rev 21:11-12 1 Kgs 6:20 Isa 60:17-18

Revelation 21:22²²Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God—the All-Powerful —and the Lamb are its temple.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:23 1 Kgs 8:27 2 Chr 2:6 Isa 66:1 John 4:21 2 Chr 6:18 Rev 1:8 Col 2:9 John 2:19-21 Rev 16:7

Revelation 21:23²³The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 60:19-20 Rev 22:5 John 1:9 Rev 21:11 Isa 24:23 Luke 2:32 Rev 18:1 Hab 3:3 John 1:14 John 1:18

Revelation 21:24²⁴The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 21:26 Rev 22:2 Zech 8:22-23 Isa 66:18 Rom 15:10-12 Zech 2:11 Isa 52:15 Isa 55:5 Isa 60:16 Isa 60:3-10

Revelation 21:25²⁵Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 60:11 Rev 22:5 Zech 14:7 Isa 60:20 Rev 21:23

Revelation 21:26²⁶They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 21:24

Revelation 21:27²⁷but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 22:14-15 Isa 52:1 Rev 20:15 Rev 3:5 Isa 35:8 Matt 13:41 Ezek 44:9 Joel 3:17 Gal 5:19-21 1 Cor 6:9-10

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