² I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband,^(A) to Christ, so that I might present you^(B) as a pure virgin to him.

² I saw the Holy City,^(A) the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,^(B) prepared as a bride^(C) beautifully dressed for her husband.

²⁵ They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived.^(A) They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever,^(B) and David my servant will be their prince forever.^{(C) 26} I will make a covenant of peace^(D) with them; it will be an everlasting covenant.^(E) I will establish them and increase their numbers,^(F) and I will put my sanctuary among them^(G) forever.^{(H) 27} My dwelling place^(I) will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.^{(J) 28} Then the nations will know that I the Lord make Israel holy,^(K) when my sanctuary is among them forever.^(L)’”

(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts^(E) of God’s holy people.)

⁹ Then the angel said to me,^(F) “Write this:^(G) Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!”^(H) And he added, “These are the true words of God.”^(I)

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,^(A) his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands^(B) in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(C) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her^{(D) 26} to make her holy,^(E) cleansing^[a] her by the washing^(F) with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself^(G) as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.^(H)

⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law^(A) through the body of Christ,^(B) that you might belong to another,^(C) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

¹⁴ “Return,^(A) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.^(B) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion. ¹⁵ Then I will give you shepherds^(C) after my own heart,^(D) who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.