Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

The river of the water of life. The fruitfulness and light of the city of God. The Lord does ever give his servants warning of things to come. The angel will not be worshipped. Nothing may be added to the word of God, nor taken away from it.

22 And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the seat of God and of the Lamb, ² in the middle of the street of the city. And on either side of the river there was the wood of life, which bore 12 kinds of fruit, and gave fruit every month. And the leaves of the wood served to heal the people. ³ And there shall be no more curse, but the seat of God and the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him. ⁴ And they will see his face, and his name will be in their foreheads. ⁵ And there will be no night there, and they need no lamp, nor the light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they will reign forevermore.

⁶ And he said to me, These sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the saints and prophets sent his angel to show to his servants the things that must shortly be fulfilled.

⁷ Behold, I come shortly. Happy is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.

⁸ I am John, who saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that showed me these things. ⁹ And he said to me, See you do it not. For I am your fellow servant, and the fellow servant of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the sayings of this book. But worship God.