New Heavens and New Earth

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

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In the first place, the carnal ordinances of the Jewish worship came to an end, in order to make way for the establishment of that spiritual worship, which is to endure to all eternity: John iv. 21. “

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Chapter 17.—Of the Endless Glory of the Church. “And I saw,” he says, “a great city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a grea

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[917] Saints in heaven acquainted with what is done on earth. That the blessed inhabitants of heaven are very much occupied in observing gospel wonders done on earth, and that their blessedness in see

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When God has obtained his end of the universe that he created in the beginning, when all things are brought to issue into their end at the consummation of all things, and God in the final event appear

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1. All communicated glory to the creature must be by the Son of God, who is the brightness or shining forth of his Father’s glory: and therefore when the eternal world comes to receive its greatest br

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I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

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He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

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1. For since there are real men, so must there also be a real establishment (plantationem), that they vanish not away among non-existent things, but progress among those which have an actual existence

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Chapter 24.—Passages from the Psalms of David Which Predict the End of the World and the Last Judgment. There are many allusions to the last judgment in the Psalms, but for the most part only casual

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16. “And the city is placed in a square.”] The city which he says is squared, he says also is resplendent with gold and precious stones, and has a sacred street, and a river through the midst of it, a

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Circumstantia sui exponuntur. [He adds, “If thou hast heard the first letter in the word Deus, and thinkest it must always belong to it alone, thou wilt blot it out in the word Diabolus. For the word

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For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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[745] New heavens and new earth. It is manifest that the world of the blessed, that is, the new world, or the new heavens and earth, or the next world that is to succeed this as the habitation of the

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I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

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The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

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The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

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I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

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