Revelation 21:2 Cross References
Revelation 21:2
2: And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a beautiful bride prepared for her husband.
Hebrews 11:10
- Abraham did this because he was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God.
Revelation 3:12
- All who are victorious will become pillars in the Temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it. And I will write my God's name on them, and they will be citizens in the city of my God--the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God. And they will have my new name inscribed upon them.
Revelation 21:10
- So he took me in spirit to a great, high mountain, and he showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.
Revelation 19:7
- Let us be glad and rejoice and honor him. For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb, and his bride has prepared herself.
- She is permitted to wear the finest white linen." (Fine linen represents the good deeds done by the people of God.)
Isaiah 61:10
- I am overwhelmed with joy in the LORD my God! For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of righteousness. I am like a bridegroom in his wedding suit or a bride with her jewels.
Hebrews 13:14
- For this world is not our home; we are looking forward to our city in heaven, which is yet to come.
2 Corinthians 11:2
- I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. For I promised you as a pure bride to one husband, Christ.
Hebrews 12:22
- No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to thousands of angels in joyful assembly.
Psalms 45:9
- Kings' daughters are among your concubines. At your right side stands the queen, wearing jewelry of finest gold from Ophir!
- Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your homeland far away.
- For your royal husband delights in your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.
- The princes of Tyre will shower you with gifts. People of great wealth will entreat your favor.
- The bride, a princess, waits within her chamber, dressed in a gown woven with gold.
John 3:29
- The bride will go where the bridegroom is. A bridegroom's friend rejoices with him. I am the bridegroom's friend, and I am filled with joy at his success.
Revelation 22:19
- And if anyone removes any of the words of this prophetic book, God will remove that person's share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.
Ephesians 5:25
- And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her
- to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word.
- He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.
Revelation 1:4
- This letter is from John to the seven churches in the province of Asia. Grace and peace from the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come; from the sevenfold Spirit before his throne;
Ephesians 5:30
- And we are his body.
- As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one."
- This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
Isaiah 54:5
- for your Creator will be your husband. The LORD Almighty is his name! He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of all the earth.
Revelation 1:9
- I am John, your brother. In Jesus we are partners in suffering and in the Kingdom and in patient endurance. I was exiled to the island of Patmos for preaching the word of God and speaking about Jesus.
Revelation 11:2
- But do not measure the outer courtyard, for it has been turned over to the nations. They will trample the holy city for 42 months.
Jeremiah 31:23
- This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "When I bring them back again, the people of Judah and its cities will again say, `The LORD bless you--O righteous home, O holy mountain!'
Psalms 87:3
- O city of God, what glorious things are said of you!
Isaiah 62:4
- Never again will you be called the Godforsaken City or the Desolate Land. Your new name will be the City of God's Delight and the Bride of God, for the LORD delights in you and will claim you as his own.
Galatians 4:25
- And now Jerusalem is just like Mount Sinai in Arabia, because she and her children live in slavery.
- But Sarah, the free woman, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. And she is our mother.
Psalms 48:1
- How great is the LORD, and how much we should praise him in the city of our God, which is on his holy mountain!
- It is magnificent in elevation--the whole earth rejoices to see it! Mount Zion, the holy mountain, is the city of the great King!
- God himself is in Jerusalem's towers. He reveals himself as her defender.
Isaiah 52:1
- Wake up, wake up, O Zion! Clothe yourselves with strength. Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem, for unclean and godless people will no longer enter your gates.
Isaiah 1:21
- See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers.
Revelation 1:1
- This is a revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him concerning the events that will happen soon. An angel was sent to God's servant John so that John could share the revelation with God's other servants.