Revelation 21:9-27

21st Century King James Version

⁹ And there came unto me one of the seven angels, who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, “Come hither; I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”

¹⁰ And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God,

¹¹ having the glory of God. And her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.

¹² It had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

¹³ on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.

¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof and the walls thereof.

¹⁶ And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as great 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.

¹⁷ And he measured the wall thereof: a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

¹⁸ And the wall was built of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

¹⁹ And 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 chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

²¹ And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each separate gate was of one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were, transparent glass.

²² And I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

²³ And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God gave it light, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

²⁴ And the nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.

²⁵ And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there,

²⁶ and they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

²⁷ And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but only they that are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.