Revelation 21:22-22:5

Expanded Bible

²² I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God ·Almighty [All-powerful] and the Lamb are the city’s temple [^Ca temple representing the presence of God is not needed because God’s presence is throughout the city]. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God ·is its [gives it] light, and the Lamb is the city’s lamp [Is. 60:19]. ²⁴ By its light the ·people of the world [nations] will walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it [Is. 60:1–3]. ²⁵ The city’s gates will never be shut on any day [Is. 60:11], because there is no night there. ²⁶ The glory and the honor of the nations will be brought into it [^Cas gifts to God]. ²⁷ Nothing ·unclean [impure; profane; common] and no one who does ·shameful [detestable; abominable] things or tells lies will ever go into it. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s ·book [scroll] of life [3:5] will enter the city.

22 Then the angel showed me the river of the ·water of life [or living water]. It was ·shining [bright; clear] like crystal and was flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb ² down the middle of the ·street [main street; square] of the city [Gen. 2:10; Ezek. 47:1–12]. The tree of life was on each side of the river [Gen. 2:9; ^Cheaven is like Eden, only better]. It produces ·fruit twelve times a year, once each month [or twelve kinds of fruit, producing fruit each month]. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of all the nations. ³ ·Nothing that God judges guilty will be in that city [Nothing accursed will be there; or There will no longer be any curse; Gen. 3:16–19; Zech. 14:11]. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be there, and God’s servants will ·worship [serve] him. ⁴ They will see his face, and his name will be written on their foreheads [^Cdenoting ownership; 3:12; 7:3; contrast 13:16; Ex. 28:36–38]. ⁵ There will never be night again. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light. And they will ·rule as kings [reign] forever and ever.