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Book of Revelation Chapter 21
The new heaven and the new earth
 1  Then I saw a new *heaven and a new earth. The first *heaven and the first earth had gone, and the sea was not there any more.

 2  I saw God’s city, which is called New Jerusalem. It was coming down out of *heaven from God. The city was ready, like a woman who is wearing beautiful clothes for her marriage. She is ready to meet the man that she is going to marry.

 3  And then I heard someone speak loudly from the *throne. ‘Now God’s home is with human *beings!’ he said. ‘God will live among them and they will be his people. God himself will be with them and he will be their God.

 4  Their eyes were wet because they have cried. But God will make them happy. He will cause their eyes to be dry. Nobody will ever die or be sad again. Nobody will ever cry. Nobody will ever have pain again. Everything bad has gone. Everything that belonged to the old world has gone.’

 5  Then God, who was sitting on the *throne, spoke. ‘I am making everything new!’ he said. ‘Write this down, because these words are true. Everyone can believe them’, he said to me.

 6  Then he spoke again. ‘It is finished!’ he said. ‘I am first and I am last. I cause all things to begin and I cause the end of all things. I will give water to everyone who needs to drink. My water comes up, like a stream comes up from the ground. My water causes people to be alive. And nobody will have to pay anything for it.

 7  Everyone who goes on obeying Jesus will win the fight. They will receive all these things from me. And I will be their God and they will be my children.

 8  But I will *punish all the other people. They include:

People who are not brave
People who do not believe in Jesus
People who make themselves like very dirty people because they do very bad things
People who do murders
People who have sex with someone who is not their husband or their wife
People who do *magic
People who *worship false gods
People who say what is not true
All these people will go into the lake that burns with fire and *sulphur. This lake is the second death.’
New Jerusalem city
 9  Then one of the 7 *angels with the 7 cups that were full of the 7 last troubles came to me. And he said: ‘Come with me! I will show you the woman who will be the *Lamb’s wife.’

 10  Then, while God’s Spirit was causing me to dream, the *angel carried me away. He took me to a very big, high mountain and he showed me God’s city, Jerusalem. The city was coming down out of *heaven from God.

 11  It was shining with the very bright light that comes from God. The city shone like a very valuable stone. It shone with bright light, like a mirror.

 12  It had a very big, high wall round it, with 12 gates. 12 *angels stood at the gates, one *angel at each gate. And someone had written a different name on each gate. They had written the names of the 12 family groups of Israel’s people.

 13  There were three gates on each side of the city:

Three gates were on the east side
Three gates were on the north side
Three gates were on the south side, and
Three gates were on the west side.
 14  They had built the city’s wall on top of 12 very big stones. They had written the name of one of the *Lamb’s 12 special workers on each big stone. note

 15  The *angel who talked to me had a long gold stick. He used it to measure things. So he could measure the city and its gates and its wall.

 16  The city was square. It was as long as it was wide. The *angel measured the city with his stick. It was 12 000 furlongs (2400 kilometres) long. And it was as wide and as high as it was long.

 17  He also measured its wall. The wall was 144 cubits (66 metres) high (or thick). People use numbers like these to measure things. And the *angel used the same numbers to measure with. note

 18  The wall was stone that shone with light, like a mirror. And the city was gold, of the very best kind. The light shone through it, as light shines through glass.

 19  The big stones that were holding up the city’s wall were very valuable stones. These valuable stones were different colours, so they were very beautiful. They were 12 different valuable stones:

Yellow, brown and green jasper
Blue sapphire
Green agate
Dark green emerald
 20  Red onyx

Dark red carnelian
Yellow quartz
Green beryl
Yellow topaz
Yellow-green chrysoprase
Dark blue jacinth
Blue-red amethyst
 21  The 12 gates were 12 *pearls. Each gate was from one separate *pearl. The city’s biggest street was gold, of the very best kind. The light shone through it, as light shines through glass.

 22  The *Lord God, who has all authority, and the *Lamb, are there in the city. Nobody needs to go to a special house to *worship them. So I saw no special house for people to *worship God in the city.

 23  Also, the city does not need either the sun or the moon to shine on it. The very bright light that comes from God gives it light. The *Lamb is its light.

 24  The people in all the world’s countries will live in the city’s light. And the earth’s rulers will bring all their valuable things into the city.

 25  Nobody will ever shut the city’s gates because it will always be day. There will be no night there.

 26  They will bring beautiful and valuable things into the city from every country.

 27  But nothing that is bad or dirty can ever go into the city. Nobody who does what makes people ashamed can go in there. Nobody who says what is not true can go in. Only those people with their names in the *Lamb’s book can go in there. They will live with God always.

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