Revelation 21:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.

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  • Isa 66:22 : 22 For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.
  • 2 Pet 3:13 : 13 But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.
  • Isa 65:17-19 : 17 For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind. 18 But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy. 19 And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.
  • Rev 21:5 : 5 And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true.
  • Rev 13:1 : 1 And he took his place on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads unholy names.

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    5 And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true.

    6 And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.

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