Revelation 21:1

And I saw a new sky and a new earth, for the first sky and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

In Context

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

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Cross References

Isaiah 27:1In that day LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.

Isaiah 65:17For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Daniel 7:3And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another.

2 Peter 3:13But we anticipate a new heavens and a new earth according to his promise, in which righteousness dwells.

Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and him who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 21:1

Hitherto the prophecy of this book has presented to us a very remarkable mixture of light and shade, prosperity and adversity, mercy and judgment, in the conduct of divine Providence towards the church in the world: now, at the close of all, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away; a new world now appears, the former having passed away. Some are willing to understand all that is said in these last two chapters of the state of the church even here on earth, in the glory of the latter days; but others, more… Read the whole commentary →

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