Dual Panel1THEN I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first Heaven and the first earth had disappeared and the sea was no more.
2I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride dressed in beauty for her husband.
3Then I heard a great voice from the throne crying, "See! The home of God is with men, and he will live among them. They shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them,
4and will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death shall he no more, and never again shall there be sorrow or crying or pain. For all those former things are past and gone."
5Then he who is seated upon the throne said, "See, I am making all things new!" And he added, "Write this down for my words are true and to be trusted."
6Then he said to me, "It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the thirsty water without price from the fountain of life.
7The victorious shall inherit these things, and I will be God to him and he will be son to me.
8But as for the cowards, the faithless and the corrupt, the murderers, the traffickers in sex and sorcery, the worshippers of idols and all liarstheir inheritance is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death."
9Then one of the seven angels who bold the seven bowls which were filled with the seven last plagues, came to me and said, "Come, and I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."
10Then he carried me away in spirit to the top of a vast mountain, and pointed out to me the city, the holy Jerusalem, descending from God out of Heaven,
11radiant with the glory of God. Her brilliance sparkled like a very precious jewel with the clear light of crystal.
12Around her she had a vast and lofty wall in which were twelve gateways with twelve angels at the gates. There were twelve names inscribed over the twelve gateways, and they are the names of the twelve trills of the sons of Israel
13On the east there were three gateways, on the north three gateways, on the south three gateways and on the west three gateways.
14The wall of the city had twelve foundationstones, and on these were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15The one who was talking to me had a golden rod in his hand with which to measure the city, its gateways and its wall.
16The city lies foursquare, its length equal to its breadth. He measured the city with his rod and it was twelve thousand furlongs in each direction, for its length, breadth and height are all equal.
17Then he measured its wall, and found that to be one hundred and fortyfour halfyards high by human measurement, (which the angel was using).
18The wall itself was built of translucent stone, while the city was of purest gold, with the brilliance of glass. The foundation stones of the wall of the city were fashioned out of every kind of precious stone.
19The first foundationstone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
20the fifth onyx, the sixth cornelian, the seventh goldstone, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth green goldstone, the eleventh turquoise, and the twelfth amethyst.
21The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The street of the city was purest gold gleaming like glass.
22I could see no Sanctuary in the city, for the Lord, the Almighty God, and the Lamb are themselves its Sanctuary.
23The city has no need for the light of sun or moon, for the splendor of God fills it with light and its radiance is the Lamb.
24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
25The city's gates shall stand open day after dayand there will be no night there.
26Into the city they will bring the splendors and honours of the nations.
27But nothing unclean, no one who deals in filthiness and lies, shall ever at any time enter itonly those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.