I did not see a temple in the city,

because its temple

is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb.

The city has no need of the sun or the moon

to shine on it,

because the glory of God shines on it,

and the Lamb is its lamp.

The peoples of the world will walk by its light,

and the kings of the earth will bring their wealth into it.

The gates of the city will stand open all day;

they will never be closed,

because there will be no night there.

The greatness and the wealth of the nations

will be brought into the city.

But nothing that is impure will enter the city,

nor anyone who does shameful things or tells lies.

Only those whose names are written

in the Lamb’s book of the living

will enter the city.