¹⁰ For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.

¹⁴ For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

²² But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,

² And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.

²⁰ For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

¹ For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

¹⁰ And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

¹¹ Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass:

¹² She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels; and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

¹³ And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors.

¹⁴ And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall.

¹⁶ And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.

¹⁷ And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

¹⁸ And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.

¹⁹ The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

²⁰ The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

²¹ And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.

²² And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.

²³ And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.

²⁴ And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it.

²⁵ And the doors of it will never be shut by day (for there is no night there):

²⁶ And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it:

²⁷ And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.

²⁸ If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:

⁴ For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

² In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

³² What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.