The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

⁹ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues^(A) came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride,^(B) the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰ And he carried me away^(C) in the Spirit^(D) to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.^{(E) 11} It shone with the glory of God,^(F) and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper,^(G) clear as crystal.^{(H) 12} It had a great, high wall with twelve gates,^(I) and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.^{(J) 13} There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. ¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations,^(K) and on them were the names of the twelve apostles^(L) of the Lamb.

²¹ The twelve gates^(A) were twelve pearls,^(B) each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.^(C)

²² I did not see a temple^(D) in the city, because the Lord God Almighty^(E) and the Lamb^(F) are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God^(G) gives it light,^(H) and the Lamb^(I) is its lamp. ²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.^{(J) 25} On no day will its gates^(K) ever be shut,^(L) for there will be no night there.^{(M) 26} The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.^{(N) 27} Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,^(O) but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.^(P)