¹⁰ For he was looking forward to ^(A)the city that has ^(B)foundations, ^(C)whose designer and builder is God.

¹⁴ For ^(A)here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

²² But you have come to ^(A)Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, ^(B)the heavenly Jerusalem, and to ^(C)innumerable angels in festal gathering,

²⁰ But ^(A)our citizenship is in heaven, and ^(B)from it we ^(C)await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Our Heavenly Dwelling

5 For we know that if ^(A)the tent that is ^(B)our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, ^(C)a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

⁴ (For every house is built by someone, but ^(A)the builder of all things is God.)

² And I saw ^(A)the holy city, ^(B)new Jerusalem, ^(C)coming down out of heaven from God, ^(D)prepared ^(E)as a bride adorned for her husband.

² In ^(A)my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that ^(B)I go to prepare a place for you?^[a]

¹⁰ And ^(A)he carried me away in the Spirit to ^(B)a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, ^11 (C)having the glory of God, ^(D)its radiance ^(E)like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. ¹² It had a great, high wall, ^(F)with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed— ¹³ on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve ^(G)foundations, and ^(H)on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And the one who spoke with me ^(I)had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. ¹⁶ The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia.^[a] Its length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷ He also measured its wall, 144 cubits^[b] by ^(J)human measurement, which is also ^(K)an angel's measurement. ¹⁸ The wall was built of ^(L)jasper, while the city was pure gold, like ^(M)clear glass. ^19 (N)The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and ^(O)the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

²² And ^(P)I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³ And the city ^(Q)has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for ^(R)the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴ By its light ^(S)will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth ^(T)will bring their glory into it, ²⁵ and ^(U)its gates will never be shut by day—and ^(V)there will be no night there. ²⁶ They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. ²⁷ But ^(W)nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's ^(X)book of life.