Revelation 21:1

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea exists no more.

Darby Translation

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 the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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Cross References

Isaiah 27:1In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

Isaiah 65:17For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former 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, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.

Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled, and place was not 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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