Revelation 21:1

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone, and the sea is now no more.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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Cross References

Isaiah 27:1In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the see.

Isaiah 65:17For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shell not come upon the heart.

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

2 Peter 3:13But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was no place 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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