Revelation 21:1

I saw the new heaven and the new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.

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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, John, saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

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Cross References

Isaiah 27:1In that day, the Lord will visit, with his harsh and great and strong sword, against Leviathan, the barred serpent, and against Leviathan, the twisted serpent, and he will slay the whale that is in the sea.

Isaiah 65:17For behold, I create the new heavens and the new earth. And the former things will not be in memory and will not enter into the heart.

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

2 Peter 3:13Yet truly, in accord with his promises, we are looking forward to the new heavens and the new earth, in which justice lives.

Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and One sitting upon it, from whose sight earth and heaven fled, 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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