Revelation 21:5

He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true."

New Heart English Bible

In The King James Version

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

In Context

4He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."

6He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

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Cross References

Isaiah 42:9Behold, the former things have happened,and I declare new things.I tell you about them before they come up."

Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

Revelation 1:11saying, "What you see, write in a scroll and send to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

Revelation 4:2Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne.

Revelation 5:1I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed shut with seven seals.

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

Matthew Henry on Revelation 21:2-9

The New Jerusalem. ( a. d. 95.) 1 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. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away… Read the whole commentary →

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