Revelation 21 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; also, the ocean was no more. ² And I saw the holy city, 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 heaven saying, “Take note, the tabernacle of God is with men and He will dwell with them, and they will be His people. Yes, God Himself will be with them. ⁴ And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there will be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor pain —they will exist no more because the first things have gone.” ⁵ Then He who sat on the throne said, “Take note, I make everything new!” And He says to me, “Write, because these words are true and faithful!” ⁶ Then He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the one who thirsts I will give of the spring of the water of Life freely. ⁷ He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him and he will be a son to me. ⁸ But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters, and all who are false, their portion is in the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone, 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 with me saying, “Come, I will show you the woman, the Lamb’s bride.” ¹⁰ So he transported me in spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the splendor of God. Her radiance was similar to a most precious stone, like a crystalline jasper stone; ¹² she had a tremendous, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, namely the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel; ¹³ looking from the east, three gates, and from the north, three gates, and from the south, three gates, and from the west, three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names, of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Now he who spoke with me had a measure, a golden reed, so that he might measure the city and her gates. ¹⁶ The city is laid out as a square; that is, her length is equal to her width. So he measured the city with the reed at twelve thousand and twelve stadia. Her length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷ And he measured her wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man (which is of an angel). ¹⁸ The material of her wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation had 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 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls; each individual gate was composed of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. ²² I saw no sanctuary in her, because the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are her sanctuary. ²³ And the city has no need of the sun or the moon, that they should shine on her, because the very glory of God illumines her, and the Lamb is her light. ²⁴ And the nations will walk in her light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into her. ²⁵ Her gates will absolutely not be closed by day (and no night will exist there). ²⁶ And they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into her. ²⁷ But anything ‘common’ or anyone perpetrating an abomination or a lie will absolutely not enter her; only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

¹⁰ However, the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night, in which heavens will pass away with a whoosh, while the elements will be dissolved by burning—both the earth and the works in it will be completely consumed.

¹³ Nevertheless, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which dwells righteousness, according to His promise.

¹ Now I was standing on the seashore, and I saw a Beast of prey coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten diadems and on his heads blasphemous names.

¹¹ Then I saw a tremendous white throne and the One who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away; and no place was found for them.

⁵ Then He who sat on the throne said, “Take note, I make everything new!” And He says to me, “Write, because these words are true and faithful!”

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and hears him, has great joy at the bridegroom’s voice. So this my joy has been fulfilled.

² For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I betrothed you to one man to present you to Christ as a pure virgin.

²⁵ (for this ‘Hagar’ is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present day Jerusalem, and is in slavery with her children); ²⁶ while the ‘Jerusalem’ that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf, ²⁶ in order that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of the water: in a word, ²⁷ that He might present her—the splendid Church—to Himself, not having a blemish or a wrinkle or any such thing, but that she be holy and blameless.

³⁰ —for we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. ³¹ “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” ³² This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.

¹⁰ for he was waiting expectantly for the city with the real foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

²² but you have come to Mount Zion, even to the City of the Living God, Heavenly Jerusalem; to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

¹⁴ because here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the coming one.

¹ Jesus Christ’s revelation, which God gave Him to show to His slaves —the things that must occur shortly. And He communicated it, sending it by His angel to His slave John,

⁴ John, to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven-fold Spirit who is before His throne,

⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Christ Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the Word of God and on account of the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹² The one who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never again go out. And I will write on him the name of my God, the name of my God’s city—the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God—and my new name.

² But leave out the outer court of the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations; and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

⁷ Let us rejoice and exult and give Him the glory, because the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself.” ⁸ And it was granted to her to be dressed in fine linen, bright and pure, for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

¹⁰ So he transported me in spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

¹⁹ And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God remove his share from the tree of life and out of the Holy City, that stand written in this book!”

¹⁴ So the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we observed His glory, glory of an Only-begotten, from the Father, full of grace and truth.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him: “If anyone loves me he will keep my word. So my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

¹⁶ Further, what agreement can a temple of God have with idols? Because you are a temple of the living God, just as God said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them; I will be their God and they will by my people.”

¹⁸ And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the LORD Almighty.”

¹⁰ “Now this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD, “I will put my laws into their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God and they will be my people.

¹⁶ Instead they are aspiring to a better home—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; in fact He has prepared a city for them.

¹⁵ Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary. And He who sits on the throne will shelter them.

⁴ Now when the seven thunders spoke I was about to write, but I heard a voice out of heaven saying, “Seal up the things that the seven thunders said,” and “You write after these things.”

⁸ Now the voice that I heard out of heaven was speaking to me again and saying, “Go, take the little book that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in the heaven saying: “Now the salvation and the power have come, even the Kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accused them before our God day and night.

⁷ He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him and he will be a son to me.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

³¹ and those who use this world as though not abusing it; because this world’s mode is passing away.

²⁶ The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.

⁵⁴ So whenever this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality, then this written word will happen: “Death has been swallowed down into victory.” ⁵⁵ “Where, O Death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?” ⁵⁶ The stinger of death is sin, and the adjunct of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ Now thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! ⁵⁸ So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

¹⁷ Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate,” says the Lord, “Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil— ¹⁵ and set free these [the children] who during their whole lifetime were subject to slavery through fear of death.

¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

¹⁷ because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

¹⁴ And Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death, the Lake of Fire.

¹ Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; also, the ocean was no more.

³ There will be no accursed thing there, but the throne of God and of the Lamb are in her, and His slaves will minister to Him.

¹⁷ so then, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old things have passed on; look, all has become new!

¹¹ saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

¹⁹ Therefore write the things that you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that are going to occur after these.

² And immediately I was in spirit, and there, a throne set in heaven (and One sitting on the throne)

⁹ And whenever the living beings ascribe glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,

¹ And I saw upon the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll, written inside and outside, sealed with seven seals.

⁹ And he says to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding banquet of the Lamb’.” And he says to me, “These are the true words of God.”

⁶ Then he says to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent His angel to show to His slaves the things that must shortly take place.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is the One saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.”

¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never ever thirst; rather, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up into eternal life.”

³⁷ Now on the last and most important day of the Feast, Jesus stood up and called out saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. ³⁸ The one believing into me, just as the Scripture has said, out from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.”

²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also graciously give us all things?

¹² We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God;

⁵ Who then is Paul, who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord has given to each one?

¹² Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

²¹ So then, let no one boast in men, for all things are yours:

⁴ in that whatever has been begotten by God overcomes the world; this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. ⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁸ “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “He who is and who was and who is coming, The Almighty.”

¹⁷ And when I saw Him I fell at His feet as if dead. And He placed His right hand upon me saying, “Do not fear. I am the First and the Last,

⁶ and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there would be no further delay,

¹⁷ Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a great voice came out of the sanctuary of heaven, from the Throne, saying, “It is done!”

¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, the First and the Last.”

¹⁷ Both the Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ And let whoever hears say, ‘Come!’ And let whoever thirsts come; whoever wants to, let him take the water of life free of charge.

²⁹ And, everyone who left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my name’s sake will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit life eternal.

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom that was prepared for you at the foundation of the world.

¹⁷ As Jesus set out on the road, someone came running up, knelt before Him and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children ¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him).

²¹ So then, let no one boast in men, for all things are yours: ²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, whether the world or life or death, whether things present or things to come—all are yours, ²³ and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has given us another birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead, ⁴ into an imperishable and undefiled and unfading inheritance, already reserved in the heavens for you,

⁹ not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this so that you may inherit a blessing.

¹ Consider how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God! The world does not acknowledge us for this reason: it did not acknowledge Him. ² Dear ones, right now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is ³ —everyone who has this hope upon him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

⁷ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who overcomes I will grant to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of my God.’

¹¹ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one who overcomes will absolutely not be harmed by the second death.’

¹⁷ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who overcomes I will grant to eat from the hidden manna. And I will give him a white pebble, and on the pebble a new name written, which no one knows except the receiver.’

²⁵ just hold fast what you have until I come.

³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Take note, the tabernacle of God is with men and He will dwell with them, and they will be His people. Yes, God Himself will be with them.

²⁶ And He says to them, “Why are you cowardly, you little-faiths?” Then rising He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

²⁸ And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear the One who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.

⁴ “Further, I say to you, my friends: do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have nothing more that they can do. ⁵ Rather, I will advise you whom you should fear—fear Him who after He kills has authority to cast into Gehenna; yes indeed, fear Him! ⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. ⁷ Even the hairs of your head are all numbered! So do not be afraid; you are far more valuable than sparrows! ⁸ “Also I say to you, whoever claims me before men, the Son of Man will also claim him before the angels of God. ⁹ But whoever disclaims me before men will be disclaimed before the angels of God.

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying .

⁴² Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed into Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they wouldn’t be expelled from the synagogue; ⁴³ for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely.

²⁰ Rather, that the things pagans sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to become participants with the demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

⁵ Because you can know this for sure: no fornicator, nor anyone who is morally corrupt or insatiable (actually an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of the disobedience.

⁹ that one’s coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

⁹ knowing that law is not made for a righteous person but for lawless and rebellious ones, for ungodly and sinners, for unholy and profane, for patricides and matricides, for murderers, ¹⁰ for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

² —through hypocritical liars whose own consciences have been cauterized,

²⁴ to Jesus, Mediator of a new covenant, and to a blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

⁴ Marriage is honorable among all and the marriage bed undefiled, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

¹⁴ But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.” ¹⁵ Rather, sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready with an answer for everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and respect;

²² Who is the liar but the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son.

¹⁵ Whoever is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding within himself.

¹⁰ He who believes into the Son of God has the witness within himself; he who doesn’t believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning His Son.

² ‘I know your works, yes the labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot stand those who are evil. And you have tested those who claim to be apostles and are not, and found them to be liars;

²¹ and they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their fornication or their thefts.

²⁰ So the Beast was captured, and with him the False prophet, the one who performed signs in his presence (by which he had deceived those who had received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image). The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with brimstone.

¹⁴ And Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death, the Lake of Fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.

¹⁵ Outside are the ‘dogs’ and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.)

¹ And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues—in them the fury of God is completed. ² And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who prevailed over the Beast and over his image and over the number of his name, standing on the glassy sea, having harps of God. ³ They sing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations! ⁴ Who could not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? Because You alone are holy, because all the nations will come and do obeisance before You, because Your righteous judgments have been manifested.” ⁵ After these things I looked, and the sanctuary of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. ⁶ And out from the sanctuary came the seven angels, the ones having the seven plagues; they were clothed in pure bright linen and were girded around the chests with golden belts. ⁷ Then one of the four living beings gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the fury of God, the One who lives forever and ever.

¹ And I heard a loud voice from the sanctuary saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out the bowls of God’s fury on the earth.” ² So off went the first one and poured out his bowl on the earth, and a foul and malignant ulcer appeared in the people who had the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. ³ Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood, like a dead person’s; so every living soul in the sea died. ⁴ Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood. ⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying, “How just You are! The One who is and who was, the holy One, because You have judged these things. ⁶ Because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it!” ⁷ And I heard one from the altar saying, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty! Your judgings are true and just!” ⁸ Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was granted to him to burn the people with fire. ⁹ So the people were burned with severe burns, and they blasphemed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues. And they did not repent to give Him glory. ¹⁰ Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the Beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness; so they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. ¹¹ And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains, and because of their ulcers; yet they did not repent of their deeds. ¹² Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way for the kings from the sun’s rising might be prepared. ¹³ And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the Beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴ For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. ¹⁵ (“Watch out, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who watches and guards his clothes, so that he not walk about naked and they see his shame.”) ¹⁶ So he gathered them to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. ¹⁷ Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a great voice came out of the sanctuary of heaven, from the Throne, saying, “It is done!”

¹ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me saying, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore who sits on the many waters,

⁷ Let us rejoice and exult and give Him the glory, because the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself.”

² And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

³⁹ Now when they came up out of the water, Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, because he went on his way rejoicing.

² I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or outside of it, I don’t know, God knows. ³ Yes, I know such a man—whether in the body or outside of it, I don’t know, God knows— ⁴ how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that a man is not permitted to tell.

¹⁰ I was in spirit on the Lord’s day and I heard a voice behind me, loud as a trumpet,

³ So he took me away in spirit to a wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

³ similar in appearance to a stone, jasper and carnelian, and there was a rainbow around the throne, similar in appearance to an emerald.

⁶ and before the throne it was like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. And in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living beings full of eyes, front and back.

⁸ The sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one was able to go into the sanctuary until the seven angels’ plagues were completed.

¹⁸ The material of her wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation had jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

²² I saw no sanctuary in her, because the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are her sanctuary. ²³ And the city has no need of the sun or the moon, that they should shine on her, because the very glory of God illumines her, and the Lamb is her light.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

⁵ Night will not exist there and they will need neither lamp nor sunlight, because the Lord God illuminates them. And they will reign forever and ever.

¹⁰ “See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father, who is in the heavens.

¹⁰ Just so, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

²² In due time the beggar died and was carried away to Abraham’s bosom by the angels. “The rich man also died and was buried.

⁷ to which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. It is because of this hope that I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits being sent to serve those who are going to inherit salvation?

⁴ And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel: ⁵ From the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, ⁶ from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand, ⁷ from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, ⁸ from the tribe of Zebulon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.

¹⁷ And he measured her wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man (which is of an angel). ¹⁸ The material of her wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation had 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 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls; each individual gate was composed of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

²⁵ Her gates will absolutely not be closed by day (and no night will exist there).

² Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first Simon (the one called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James (the son of Zebedee) and John his brother, ³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew (the tax collector), James (the son of Alphaeus) and Lebbaeus (who was surnamed Thaddeus), ⁴ Simon (the Canaanite) and Judas Iscariot (who also betrayed Him).

¹⁸ And I further say to you that you are a stone, but on this bedrock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not withstand her.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid a foundation, while another builds on it. But let each one be careful how he builds; ¹¹ for no one can lay any foundation other than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

⁹ and upon perceiving the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, while they to the Jews.

²⁰ built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone;

⁵ which in different generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,

¹⁷ But you, dear ones, remember the words that were spoken before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

²⁰ “Rejoice over her, O heaven, yes you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment against her!”

¹ I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood saying, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship there. ² But leave out the outer court of the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations; and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

⁴ And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel:

¹⁸ Here is wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the Beast, for it is the number of man—his number is 666.

³ And they sing a new song before the Throne, and before the four living beings and the elders; and no one was able to learn the song except the 144 thousand, who had been redeemed from the earth.

⁹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me saying, “Come, I will show you the woman, the Lamb’s bride.”

¹¹ having the splendor of God. Her radiance was similar to a most precious stone, like a crystalline jasper stone;

¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation had jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

²¹ And the twelve gates are twelve pearls; each individual gate was composed of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

⁴⁵ “Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a merchant, seeking beautiful pearls, ⁴⁶ who upon finding one very valuable pearl went and sold everything he had and bought it.

⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.

¹⁶ and saying, ‘Alas, alas, O great city! that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and was adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls;

¹¹ having the splendor of God. Her radiance was similar to a most precious stone, like a crystalline jasper stone; ¹² she had a tremendous, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, namely the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel;

¹⁸ The material of her wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

² in the middle of her street. And on either side of the river was a tree of life producing twelve fruits, yielding each month’s fruit monthly; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.” ²⁰ So the Jews said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will raise it in three days?!” ²¹ But He was speaking about the temple of His body.

²¹ Jesus says to her: “Woman, believe me, a time is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

²³ But the time is coming, in fact now is, when the genuine worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Really, because the Father is looking for such people to worship Him.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

¹⁹ because in Him all the Fullness was pleased to dwell

⁹ Because all the Fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him in bodily form,

¹ Now that first covenant did indeed have regulations for divine service and the earthly sanctuary. ² Yes, a tabernacle was set up: the first part, which is called the Holy Place, in which were the lamp stand, the table and the showbread; ³ and behind the second curtain an area called the Holy of Holies, ⁴ having a golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold—in it were a golden jar holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant; ⁵ while above it were cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat (this is not the place to go into detail about them). ⁶ Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests continually went into the first part, performing the divine services, ⁷ but into the second one only the high priest could go, once a year and only with blood, which he offered for himself and for the people’s sins of ignorance; ⁸ the Holy Spirit was making clear that the way into the Most Holy Place was not yet open to the public while the first tabernacle was still in existence. ⁹ It was a figure during the time then present, a time when both gifts and sacrifices were being offered that were incapable of clearing the conscience of the worshipper— ¹⁰ they were only about foods and drinks and various ceremonial washings and physical regulations, things imposed until the time of restructuring. ¹¹ But Christ entered once for all into the real Holy Places, having obtained eternal redemption—He had come as High Priest of the good things that are about to be, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, ¹² and with His own blood, not that of goats and calves.

⁸ And the four living beings, each one of them, having six wings apiece, were full of eyes around and within. And they take no rest, day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy; Holy, holy, holy; Holy, holy, holy; The Lord God Almighty; He who was and who is and who is coming.”

⁶ And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living beings, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing —as if slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

¹⁷ saying: “We thank You, O Lord God Almighty, He who is and who was and who is coming, because You have taken up your great power and begun to reign.

³ They sing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

⁷ And I heard one from the altar saying, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty! Your judgings are true and just!”

¹⁴ For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

¹⁵ And out of His mouth goes a sharp, two-edged sword, so that with it He may strike the nations. And He Himself will shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He Himself treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

⁴ And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there will be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor pain —they will exist no more because the first things have gone.” ⁵ Then He who sat on the throne said, “Take note, I make everything new!” And He says to me, “Write, because these words are true and faithful!”

²⁷ For the Son of the Man will certainly come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will recompense each according to his performance.

³⁸ Yes, whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of Him whenever He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy Angels.”

³² a light for revelation to Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel.”

⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

⁹ the true Light which illumines everyone who comes into the world.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God. The Only-begotten Son, who exists in the bosom of the Father, He has interpreted Him .

²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁴ “Father, those whom You have given to me, I desire that they also may be with me where I am, so that they may observe my glory, which You have given me, because You loved me before the founding of the world.

¹¹ And since I could not see, because of the brightness of that light, I entered Damascus being led by the hand of those who were with me.

¹ After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor.

¹⁰ And again He says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!” ¹¹ And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and laud Him, all you peoples!” ¹² And again, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, even He who rises up to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will place their hope on Him.”

¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

²⁶ Because Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

²⁶ And they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into her.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun or the moon, that they should shine on her, because the very glory of God illumines her, and the Lamb is her light. ²⁴ And the nations will walk in her light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into her.

⁴¹ The Son of the Man will send out His angels, and they will collect out of His kingdom everything that is offensive, and those who perpetrate lawlessness;

⁵ Because you can know this for sure: no fornicator, nor anyone who is morally corrupt or insatiable (actually an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christ and God.

³ Yes, I urge you too, loyal Syzygus, help these women who labored with me in the Gospel, and with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord;

⁵ The one who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments, and I will not erase his name from the Book of Life, and I will confess his name before my Father and before His angels.

⁸ All who dwell on the earth will do obeisance to him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slaughtered from the foundation of the world.

⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. ⁵ And on her forehead a name was written: “Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the prostitutes and the abominations of the earth.”

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened. And another Book was opened, namely, of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things that were written in the books.

¹⁵ And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.

⁸ But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters, and all who are false, their portion is in the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

¹⁴ (Blessed are those who do His commands, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, even to enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ Outside are the ‘dogs’ and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.)