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Revelation 21

 1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven
and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
 3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they
shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
 4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be
any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
 5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
 6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst
of the fountain of the water of life freely.
 7He that overcometh shall inherit all things;
and I will be his God,and he shall be my son.
 8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers,
and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall
have their part in the lake which burneth with
fire and brimstone:which is the second death.
 9And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven
vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come
hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
 10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain,
and shewed me that great city, the holy
Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
 11Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most
precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
 12And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the
gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which
are the names ofthe twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
 13On the east three gates; on the north three gates;
on the souththree gates; and on the west three gates.
 14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and
in them thenames of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
 15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city,
and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
 16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the
breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand
furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
 17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four
cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
 18And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was
pure gold, like unto clear glass.
 19And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all
manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the
second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
 20The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte;
the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the
eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
 21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of
one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
 22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the
Lamb are the temple of it.
 23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine
in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light
thereof.
 24And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of
it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
 25And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there
shall be no night there.
 26And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
 27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth,
neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they
which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

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