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43 lines
3.6 KiB
Markdown
The New Creation
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# Chapter 21
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1. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
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2. I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
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3. Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look, God's dwelling is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and will be their God.
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4. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away.
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5. Then the one seated on the throne said, "Look, I am making everything new." He also said, "Write, because these words are faithful and true."
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6. Then he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give to the thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
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7. The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
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8. But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
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The New Jerusalem
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9. Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."
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10. He then carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
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11. arrayed with God's glory. Her radiance was like a precious jewel, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
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12. The city had a massive high wall, with twelve gates. Twelve angels were at the gates; the names of the twelve tribes of Israel's sons were inscribed on the gates.
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13. There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
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14. The city wall had twelve foundations, and the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb were on the foundations.
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15. The one who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
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16. The city is laid out in a square; its length and width are the same. He measured the city with the rod at 12,000 <em>stadia</em>. Its length, width, and height are equal.
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17. Then he measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which the angel used.
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18. The building material of its wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold clear as glass.
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19. The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of jewel: the first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
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20. the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
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21. The twelve gates are twelve pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.
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22. I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
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23. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
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24. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
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25. Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.
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26. They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
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27. Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb's book of life.
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