Revelation 21:3-5 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

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 21:5-6

21:5-6 And he who is seated upon the throne said: "Behold, I make all things new." And he said: "Write, for these are words that are trustworthy and true." And he said to me: "It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Without price I will give to the thirsty of the fountain of the water of life." For the first time God himself speaks; he is the God who is able to make all things new. Again we are back among the dreams of the ancient prophets. Isaiah heard God say:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:3

And I heard a great voice out of heaven ,.... Either of an angel, or rather of Christ, or God himself; since the Alexandrian copy and Vulgate Latin version read, "out of the throne", saying, behold the tabernacle of God is with men ; in allusion to the tabernacle being with the Israelites, and the "Shechinah", or divine Majesty, being in the midst of them, and as an accomplishment of the promise in Ezekiel 37:27 in the fullest sense of it; and designs something distinct from the... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:5

And he that sat upon the throne said ,.... By whom is meant, either God the Father, who is often represented in this book as sitting on the throne, and as distinguished from Christ the Lamb; see Revelation 4:2 Revelation 5:13 and who may seem the more to be intended, since he is by adopting grace the God and Father of his people, and they are his sons and daughters; or rather Christ, who not only is set down on the same throne with his Father, but has a throne of his own, called the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:3

The tabernacle of God is with men - God, in the most especial manner, dwells among his followers, diffusing his light and life everywhere. 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:5

Behold, I make all things new - As the creation of the world at the beginning was the work of God alone, so this new creation. These words are true and faithful - Truth refers to the promise of these changes; faithfulness, to the fulfillment of these promises. 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

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 21:5-6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:3

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:3

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:5

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