A New Heaven and a New Earth

21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”^[a](A) for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,^(B) and there was no longer any sea. ² I saw the Holy City,^(C) the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,^(D) prepared as a bride^(E) beautifully dressed for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them.^(F) They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.^{(G) 4} ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes.^(H) There will be no more death’^[b](I) or mourning or crying or pain,^(J) for the old order of things has passed away.”^(K)

⁵ He who was seated on the throne^(L) said, “I am making everything new!”^(M) Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”^(N)

⁶ He said to me: “It is done.^(O) I am the Alpha and the Omega,^(P) the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost^(Q) from the spring of the water of life.^{(R) 7} Those who are victorious^(S) will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.^{(T) 8} But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars^(U)—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.^(V) This is the second death.”^(W)

²¹ The twelve gates^(A) were twelve pearls,^(B) each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.^(C)

²² I did not see a temple^(D) in the city, because the Lord God Almighty^(E) and the Lamb^(F) are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God^(G) gives it light,^(H) and the Lamb^(I) is its lamp. ²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.^{(J) 25} On no day will its gates^(K) ever be shut,^(L) for there will be no night there.^{(M) 26} The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.^{(N) 27} Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,^(O) but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.^(P)