Revelation 21:4 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 21:1-8

We have here a more general account of the happiness of the church of God in the future state, by which it seems most safe to understand the heavenly state. I. A new world now opens to our view (Rev. 21:1): I saw a new heaven and a new earth; that is, a new universe; for we suppose the world to be made up of heaven and earth. By the new earth we may understand a new state for the bodies of men, as well as a heaven for their souls. This world is not now newly created, but newly opened, and... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 21:3-4

21:3-4 And I heard a great voice from heaven. "Behold," it said, "the dwelling-place of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them; and he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, nor will there be any grief or crying, nor will there be any more pain, for the first things have gone." Here is the promise of fellowship with God and all its precious consequences. The voice is that of one of the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 21:3-4

God's promise to make Israel his people and to be their God echoes throughout the Old Testament. "I will make my abode among you... and I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people" ( Leviticus 26:11-12 ). In Jeremiah's account of the new covenant the promise of God is: "I will be their God, and they shall be my people" ( Jeremiah 31:33 ). The promise to Ezekiel is: "My dwelling-place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people" ( ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes ,.... Occasioned by sin, Satan, the hidings of God's face, and afflictive dispensations of Providence; for these will be no more: and there shall be no more death ; natural or violent; there will be no more putting of the saints to death, or persecution of them unto death, as in former times; nor will they die a natural death any more; these children of the resurrection, and inhabitants of the new heaven and earth, will be like the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:4

There shall be no more death - Because there shall be a general resurrection. And this is the inference which St Paul makes from his doctrine of a general resurrection, 1 Corinthians 15:26 , where he says, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." But death cannot be destroyed by there being simply no farther death; death can only be destroyed and annihilated by a general resurrection; if there be no general resurrection, it is most evident that death will still retain his empire.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:1-4

The new heavens and earth. The retribution of God has fallen on the enemies of Christ and his Church. Death and hell, Satan, the beast, and the false prophet, have been cast into the lake of fire. The thunders of God's vengeance are hushed; the manifestations of his love to his redeemed now only remain to be told. And here their ultimate and eternal blessedness is shown to us. Their abode and condition are described as "new heavens and a new earth." Let us inquire— I. WHEREFORE ARE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:1-4

The fifth scene in the history of redeemed humanity: the unending age of blessedness. "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth," etc. The retributive process is over; the characters of all have been tried, and the doom of all pronounced. The wicked are driven away into punishment, but the righteous have entered into life eternal. These words suggest two thoughts in relation to this final state— I. THAT IT WILL BE IN A SENSE A NEW STATE . "A new heaven and a new earth,"... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:1-8

The spiritual kingdom. Now , to the eye of the weary seer—and in him to the eye of the weary, suffering Church—there appear new scenes. The darkness is past. The judgments of the Lord upon the evil powers, and upon all who take part with them as antagonists of the good, the pure, and the true, are passed away. And to the comfort of the waiting, faithful ones, who endure "as seeing him who is invisible," the vision of the blessedness of the righteous in the kingdom of their Father is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more (Revised Version). All tears; just as in Revelation 7:17 (cf. Isaiah 25:8 , "He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces;" cf. also Isaiah 65:19 ). There is "no more death" because sin is no... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:4

"Neither shall there be any more pain:" a Hospital Sunday sermon. If the wards of our hospitals could declare what words of Holy Scripture, what gracious promises out of God's book, are, more often than almost any other, spoken, read, or thought of, and most beloved, by the suffering inmates of those wards, it would be found that they are such as our text. For pain is indeed a terrible thing. No language can adequately describe what it is when, in its intenser forms, it fastens upon us.... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 21:1-8

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 21:3-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 21:3-4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:4

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