¹⁹ and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in ^(A)the tree of life and in ^(B)the holy city, which are described in this book.

^2 (A)You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.

⁵² Woe to you ^(A)lawyers! ^(B)For you have taken away the key of ^(C)knowledge. You ^(D)did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

² through the middle of ^(A)the street of the city; ^(B)also, on either side of the river, ^(C)the tree of life^[a] with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were ^(D)for the healing of the nations.

²² And ^(A)I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³ And the city ^(B)has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for ^(C)the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴ By its light ^(D)will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth ^(E)will bring their glory into it, ²⁵ and ^(F)its gates will never be shut by day—and ^(G)there will be no night there. ²⁶ They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. ²⁷ But ^(H)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 ^(I)book of life.

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.

^3 (A)Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, ^(B)for the time is near.

¹² “Behold, ^(A)I am coming soon, ^(B)bringing my recompense with me, ^(C)to repay each one for what he has done.