Revelation 22:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

flowing 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 2:7 : 7 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.’
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed 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.
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
  • Prov 3:18 : 18 She is like a tree of life to those who grasp onto her, and everyone who takes hold of her will be blessed.
  • Ezek 47:8-9 : 8 He said to me,“These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the rift valley; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh. 9 Every living creature which swarms where the river flows will live; there will be many fish, for these waters flow there. It will become fresh and everything will live where the river flows. 10 Fishermen will stand beside it; from En Gedi to En Eglaim they will spread nets. They will catch many kinds of fish, like the fish of the Great Sea. 11 But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty. 12 On both sides of the river’s banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
  • Gen 3:22-24 : 22 And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. 24 When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.
  • Ezek 47:1 : 1 Water from the Temple Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east(for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 Divine Promise to Relent from Judgment and to Restore Blessings“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.
  • Rev 22:19 : 19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.
  • Isa 57:18-19 : 18 I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them. I will lead them, and I will provide comfort to them and those who mourn with them. 19 I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,” says the LORD,“and I will heal them.
  • Rev 21:21 : 21 And 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.
  • Rev 21:24 : 24 The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 Then 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,
  • Jer 17:14 : 14 LORD, grant me relief from my suffering so that I may have some relief; rescue me from those who persecute me so that I may be rescued, for you give me reason to praise!
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • Ps 147:3 : 3 He heals the brokenhearted, and bandages their wounds.
  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 47:12
    83%

    12On both sides of the river’s banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”

  • Rev 22:1
    79%

    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,

  • Dan 4:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen from the borders of all the land.

    12Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful; on it there was food enough for all. Under it the wild animals used to seek shade, and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest. All creatures used to feed themselves from it.

  • Dan 4:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen in all the land,

    21whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest–

  • Rev 22:14
    72%

    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.

  • Gen 2:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

    10Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

  • Rev 21:21-27
    7 verses
    70%

    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.

    23The 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.

    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 22:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Ezek 47:7-9
    3 verses
    70%

    7When I had returned, I noticed a vast number of trees on the banks of the river, on both sides.

    8He said to me,“These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the rift valley; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.

    9Every living creature which swarms where the river flows will live; there will be many fish, for these waters flow there. It will become fresh and everything will live where the river flows.

  • Zech 4:3
    69%

    3There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the receptacle and the other on the left.”

  • Rev 21:14-16
    3 verses
    69%

    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.

    16Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles(its length and width and height are equal).

  • Rev 21:10-12
    3 verses
    68%

    10So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

    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.

  • Jer 17:8
    68%

    8They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

  • Rev 7:17
    67%

    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.”

  • Ezek 31:12
    66%

    12Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land have departed from its shade and left it.

  • Rev 17:15
    66%

    15Then the angel said to me,“The waters you saw(where the prostitute is seated) are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

  • Rev 2:7
    66%

    7The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.’

  • Ezek 17:8
    66%

    8In a good field, by abundant waters, it was planted to grow branches, bear fruit, and become a beautiful vine.

  • Rev 11:4
    66%

    4(These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.)

  • Ps 1:3
    66%

    3He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

  • Prov 4:22
    66%

    22for they are life to those who find them and healing to one’s entire body.

  • Dan 4:14
    66%

    14He called out loudly as follows:‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches! Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit! Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches!

  • Rev 21:2
    65%

    2And I saw the holy city– the new Jerusalem– descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

  • Joel 2:22
    65%

    22Do not fear, wild animals! For the pastures of the wilderness are again green with grass. Indeed, the trees bear their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield to their fullest.

  • Ps 92:14
    65%

    14They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.

  • Rev 14:20
    65%

    20Then the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood poured out of the winepress up to the height of horses’ bridles for a distance of almost two hundred miles.

  • Ezek 31:7
    65%

    7It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

  • Gen 1:29
    65%

    29Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

  • Rev 11:2
    64%

    2But do not measure the outer courtyard of the temple; leave it out, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.

  • Ps 80:11
    64%

    11Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots the Euphrates River.

  • Ezek 17:5
    64%

    5He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.

  • Rev 22:19
    64%

    19And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.

  • Rev 21:18
    64%

    18The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

  • Rev 17:18
    64%

    18As for the woman you saw, she is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.”