Revelation 21:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 60:19-20 : 19 The sun will no longer supply light for you by day, nor will the moon’s brightness shine on you; the LORD will be your permanent source of light– the splendor of your God will shine upon you. 20 Your sun will no longer set; your moon will not disappear; the LORD will be your permanent source of light; your time of sorrow will be over.
  • Rev 21:11 : 11 The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.
  • Isa 24:23 : 23 The full moon will be covered up, the bright sun will be darkened; for the LORD of Heaven’s Armies will rule on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in the presence of his assembly, in majestic splendor.
  • Rev 22:5 : 5 Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
  • Hab 3:3 : 3 God comes from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendor has covered the skies, the earth is full of his glory.
  • Rev 21:25 : 25 Its gates will never be closed during the day(and there will be no night there).
  • Acts 22:11 : 11 Since I could not see because of the brilliance of that light, I came to Damascus led by the hand of those who were with me.
  • Rev 18:1 : 1 Babylon is Destroyed After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance.
  • Mark 8:38 : 38 For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 a light, for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”
  • John 1:4 : 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.
  • John 1:9 : 9 The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
  • John 1:14 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • John 5:23 : 23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
  • John 17:24 : 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
  • Matt 16:27 : 27 For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
  • Isa 2:10 : 10 Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the LORD, from his royal splendor!
  • Isa 2:19 : 19 They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.
  • Isa 2:21 : 21 so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

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  • Rev 21:21-22
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    21And the twelve gates are twelve pearls– each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

    22Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God– the All-Powerful– and the Lamb are its temple.

  • Rev 21:24-27
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    24The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.

    25Its gates will never be closed during the day(and there will be no night there).

    26They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it,

    27but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

  • Rev 22:1-5
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    1Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life– water as clear as crystal– pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

    2flowing down the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.

    3And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him,

    4and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

    5Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

  • Rev 21:9-12
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    9The New Jerusalem Descends Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and spoke to me, saying,“Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!”

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    11The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.

    12It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.

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    19The sun will no longer supply light for you by day, nor will the moon’s brightness shine on you; the LORD will be your permanent source of light– the splendor of your God will shine upon you.

    20Your sun will no longer set; your moon will not disappear; the LORD will be your permanent source of light; your time of sorrow will be over.

  • Rev 21:1-4
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    3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying:“Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them.

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  • Rev 7:15-17
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    15For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will shelter them.

    16They will never go hungry or be thirsty again, and the sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat,

    17because the Lamb in the middle of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

  • Rev 21:14-16
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    14The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

    15The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

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  • Rev 18:1
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    1Babylon is Destroyed After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance.

  • John 1:5
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    5And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

  • Luke 11:36
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    36If then your whole body is full of light, with no part in the dark, it will be as full of light as when the light of a lamp shines on you.”

  • 1 John 1:5
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  • Rev 17:18
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    18As for the woman you saw, she is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.”

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    14You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.

  • Rev 22:14
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    14Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.

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    3Nations come to your light, kings to your bright light.

  • Rev 19:7
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    7Let us rejoice and exult and give him glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

  • Zech 14:6-7
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    6On that day there will be no light– the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.

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    6The sun will not harm you by day, or the moon by night.

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  • 2 Cor 4:6
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  • Isa 24:23
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    23The full moon will be covered up, the bright sun will be darkened; for the LORD of Heaven’s Armies will rule on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in the presence of his assembly, in majestic splendor.

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