Revelation 21:1

AND I saw new heavens and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had gone, and the sea was no more.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 the holy city, Urishlem the new, I saw descending from heaven from Aloha, prepared as the bride is decked for her husband.

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Cross References

2 Peter 3:13But new heavens and earth, according to his promise, we expect; those wherein righteousness dwelleth.

Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and Him who sat thereon, from whom from his face fled earth and heaven; and place (as) to this 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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