Revelation 21:1

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

World Messianic Bible British

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

2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down 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 with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

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

Daniel 7:3Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.

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

Revelation 20:11I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away. There was found no place 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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