And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth passed away and the sea is no longer.
And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,
“Look, the tabernacle of God with the people, and he’ll dwell with them and they’ll be his peoples and God himself will be with them, their God. And God will brush away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no longer, nor mourning, nor crying nor pain will be any longer because the first things have passed away.”
And the one sitting on the throne said,
“Look, I’m making all things new!”
And he says to me,
“Write, because these words are true and faithful.”
And he said to me,
“It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give from the spring of the water of life to him who thirsts. He who overcomes will inherit all things and I’ll be God to him and he’ll be my son: but to the cowardly and unbelieving, and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
And one of the seven angels, having the seven bowls full of the last plagues, came to me and spoke with me saying,
“Come here, I’ll show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife”’
And he carried me away in spirit to a big and high mountain and showed me the great city, the Holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, and her luminosity like a most precious stone, as a crystal-like jasper stone; having too a great and high wall, having twelve gates and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed which are of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. On the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, on the west three gates. And the wall of the city having twelve foundations and in them the names of the Lamb’s twelve apostles.
And the one speaking with me had a golden cane so that he might measure the city and its gates and its wall. And the city lies as a square, and its length is as much as its breadth. And he measured the city with the cane: twelve thousand furlongs, the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured its wall: a hundred and forty four cubits - the measure of a man - that is the angel’s - and the construction of the wall was jasper and the city pure gold, like clear glass. And the foundations of the city’s wall adorned with all precious stones: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
And the twelve gates: twelve pearls, every single one of the gates was of one pearl, and the street of the city pure gold, like transparent glass.
And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb. And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they should shine in it, for the glory of God lit it up and its lamp is the Lamb. And the nations of the saved will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honour to it. And its gates will not be shut day by day because no night will be there. And they will bring the glory and the honour of the nations to it.
And nothing defiling may enter into it at all, nor practising abomination and a lie, - only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
