Revelation 21:1

And I saw (a) new heaven and (a) new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth went away, and the sea is not now (or and the sea was no more).

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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 Jerusalem, new, coming down from heaven, made ready of God, as a wife adorned to her husband, (or made ready by God, like a wife adorned for her husband).

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Cross References

Isaiah 27:1In that day the Lord shall visit in his hard sword, and great, and strong, on leviathan, (the) serpent, a bar, and on leviathan, the crooked serpent; and he shall slay the whale, which is in the sea. (On that day the Lord shall punish with his hard sword, yea, with his great and strong sword, Leviathan, that piercing serpent, Leviathan, that twisting, wriggling serpent, and he shall kill this monster which is in the sea.)

Isaiah 65:17For lo! I make new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be in mind (or and the former things shall not be remembered), and shall not ascend on the heart.

Daniel 7:3And four great beasts, diverse betwixt themselves, went up from the sea.

2 Peter 3:13Also we abide by his promises new heavens and (a) new earth, in which rightwiseness dwelleth.

Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and one sitting on it, from whose sight (the) earth fled [or flew away], and heaven, (or from whose sight the earth, and heaven, fled or flew away); and the place is not found of 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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