Revelation 21:4 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 21:4

The painless world. "Neither shall there be any more pain." The greatest realities of life need no explanation. Pain in this world is an undoubted reality. It visits all, and though in its advent it bears greater anguish to some than to others, all feel its torturing touch. Pain meets man as he enters the world, follows him through all the stages of life, and leaves him not until his heart grows still in death. It attends us as a dark angel wherever we go, through all seasons of the year,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes - This will be one of the characteristics of that blessed state, that not a tear shall ever be shed there. How different will that be from the condition here - for who is there here who has not learned to weep? See the notes on Revelation 7:17. Compare the notes on Isaiah 25:8.And there shall be no more death - In all that future world of glory, not one shall ever die; not a grave shall ever be dug! What a view do we begin to get of heaven, when... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 21:4-5

Revelation 21:4-5. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Though here their tears have flowed plentifully, not one shall ever be found on the face of any of them; and there shall be no more death This is a full proof that this whole description belongs to eternity and not to time. Neither shall sorrow, or crying, or pain be any more Under the former heavens, and upon the former earth, there were death and sorrow, crying and pain; all which occasioned many tears. But now pain... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:1-8

21:1-22:5 A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTHIn describing the state of things as it will be in eternity, John has to use the language of this world, for he has no other. He has to liken what he sees in the vision to things that his readers can see in the present world, for this is the only world they know. He has to use whatever language and illustrations he can find in an attempt to describe the spiritual quality of life in the eternal state.John’s visions symbolize spiritual realities. They are not... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 21:4

from. The texts read Greek. ek. App-104 . there shall, &c. Read "death shall be no ( App-105 .) more" (longer). neither, nor. Greek. oute. any more = no more, as above. for. The texts omit. former things. Compare Isaiah 25:7 , Isaiah 25:8 ; Isaiah 35:10 . Jeremiah 31:16 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 21:4

and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes ... The highly symbolical nature of this language is evident in the truth that if "literally" there is no more crying, then there would also be no tears. It is so easy to fall into literalism, like the little girl who heard this read and exclaimed, "God certainly must... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 21:1-8

Revelation 21:1-8. I saw a new heaven and a new earth, &c.— A new heaven and a new earth succeed in the room of the first heaven and first earth, which passed away at the general judgment, ch. Revelation 20:11. In the new earth there is this remarkable property, that there is no more sea; which, how it is to be effected, time must discover; but it is evident from hence, that this new heaven and earth are not designed to take place, till after the general judgment; for at the general... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 21:4

4. all tears—Greek, "every tear." no more death—Greek, "death shall be no more." Therefore it is not the millennium, for in the latter there is death (Isaiah 65:20; 1 Corinthians 15:26; 1 Corinthians 15:54, "the last enemy . . . destroyed is death," 1 Corinthians 15:54- :, after the millennium). sorrow—Greek, "mourning." passed away—Greek, "departed," as in 1 Corinthians 15:54- :. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 21:1-5

N. The eternal state 21:1-22:5The next scenes in John’s visions proved to be of conditions that will exist after the Millennium. He recorded this insight to reveal the final home of believers. There are many allusions to Isaiah 60, 65 and Ezekiel 40-48 in this pericope. The final two chapters also tie up strands of revelation from every major previous section of the book. This pericope is a picture of new beginnings, a sharp contrast with the lake of fire, another final end, in the previous... read more