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 is no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,

5 The one seated on the throne said, “Look, I am making all things new.” And he says, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” 6 And he said to me, “These things have come to pass! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the one who thirsts I will give freely from the spring of the water of life. 7 The one who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son. 8 But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 He 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, 11 having the glory of God. Its radiance was like a very precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. 13 On the east were three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15 The one speaking with me had a golden measuring reed to measure the city and its gates and its wall. 16 The city lies square, its length the same as its width. He measured the city with the reed: about 1,400 miles. Its length and width and height are equal. 17 He also measured its wall: about 216 feet, by human measure, which is also the angel's. 18 The wall was built of jasper, and the city was pure gold, like pure glass. 19 The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 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. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate was made of a single pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city has no need of the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it. 25 Its gates will never be shut by day, for there will be no night there, 26 and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. 27 Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those written in the Lamb's book of life.