Revelation 21:1

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

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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

2I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, that came down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

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Cross References

Isaiah 27:1On that day Yahweh with his hard, great and fierce sword 1 will punish Leviathan the slithering serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent, 1 and he will kill the monster that is in the sea. 1

Isaiah 65:17For see, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; 1 and the former things will not be remembered or be brought to mind. 1

Daniel 7:3Four large animals, each one different from the other, came up out of the sea.

2 Peter 3:13But according to his promise, we are waiting for the new heavens and the new earth, where righteousness will dwell.

Revelation 20:11Then I saw a great white throne and the one who is seated on it. The earth and the heaven fled away from his presence, but there was no place for them to go.

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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