MODERN LITERAL VERSION

21:1 And 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.
21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven of God, prepared as a bride adorned for* her husband.
21:3 And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and he will reside with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them and will be their God.
21:4 And he will wipe-away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.

21:5 And he who is sitting upon the throne said, Behold, I am making* all things new. And he says to me, Write, because these words are faithful and true.
21:6 And he said to me, I have become new. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give freely to him who is thirsty out of the spring of the water of life.
21:7 He who is overcoming will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
21:8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and detestable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and to all the false witnesses, their part will be in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

21:9 And one out of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls full of the last seven wounds came and spoke with me, saying, Come-here. I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a mountain great and high and showed me the great holy city Jerusalem, coming down from heaven from God,
21:11 having the glory of God. Her illumination was similar to a most precious stone, like a crystal-like jasper stone;
21:12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates and upon the gates twelve messengers, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.
21:13 Three gates were on the east and three gates were on the north, and three gates were on the south, and three gates were on the west.
21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
21:15 And he who spoke with me had a measure, a golden reed, in order that he might measure the city and its gates and its wall.
21:16 And the city lies four cornered and the length is as the width and he measured the city with the reed, {F} twelve thousand and twelve furlongs, the length and the width and its height are equal.
21:17 And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of a messenger.
21:18 And the structure of its wall was jasper and the city was purest gold, similar to purest glass.
21:19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
21:20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, carnelian; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was from one pearl, respectively and the street of the city was purest gold like transparent glass.
21:22 And I saw no temple in it; for* the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb, are its temple.
21:23 And the city has no need of the sun, neither of the moon, that* they should appear in it; for* the glory of God illuminated it and its lamp is the Lamb.
21:24 And the nations will walk in its light and the kings of the earth bring their glory and the honor of the nations into it.
21:25 And its gates may never* be locked by day (for* there will be no night there).
21:26 And they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.
21:27 And anything defiled may never* enter into it or anything practicing an abomination and a lie; except those who have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
{Footnotes: Re 21:16- A 1380 mile cube. Approximately 1/5 the size of the earth by volume if literal.}