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Revelation 21

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Book
  
Book of Revelation

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27

Bible part
  
New Testament

Category
  
Apocalypse

Revelation 21

Revelation 21 is the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle.

Contents

Text

  • The original text is written in Koine Greek.
  • Some of the oldest manuscripts containing this chapter are:
  • Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
  • Codex Alexandrinus (ca. AD 400-440)
  • This chapter is divided into 27 verses.

    • Structure

    This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to other parts of the Bible):

  • Revelation 21:1-8 = All Things Made New
  • Revelation 21:9-21 = The New Jerusalem
  • Revelation 21:22-27 = The Glory of the New Jerusalem

    • Verse 1

    New King James Version

    Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

    Verse 2

    New King James Version

    Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

    Verse 6

    New King James Version

    And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

    Verse 27

    New King James Version

    But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

    References

    Revelation 21 Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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