7. Those who win the victory will receive this from me: I will be their God, and they will be my children.
8. But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practise magic, those who worship idols, and all liars — the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
9. One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came to me and said, “Come, and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
10. The Spirit took control of me, and the angel carried me to the top of a very high mountain. He showed me Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming down out of heaven from God
11. and shining with the glory of God. The city shone like a precious stone, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
12. It had a great, high wall with twelve gates and with twelve angels in charge of the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the people of Israel.
13. There were three gates on each side: three on the east, three on the south, three on the north, and three on the west.
14. The city's wall was built on twelve foundation stones, on which were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15. The angel who spoke to me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
16. The city was perfectly square, as wide as it was long. The angel measured the city with his measuring rod: it was 2,400 kilometres long and was as wide and as high as it was long.
17. The angel also measured the wall, and it was sixty metres high, according to the standard unit of measure which he was using.
18. The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself was made of pure gold, as clear as glass.
19. The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation stone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
20. the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh yellow quartz, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chalcedony, the eleventh turquoise, the twelfth amethyst.
21. The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate was made from a single pearl. The street of the city was of pure gold, transparent as glass.
22. I did not see a temple in the city, because its temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb.