“The Holy City – the New Jerusalem”

“The Holy City – the New Jerusalem”
“The Residence of God” - “where Righteousness is at Home”

5:7…of the one who was seated on the throne, 5:9 They were singing a new song:
“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
5:10 You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”

21:2 And I saw the holy city – the new Jerusalem – descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them. 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”
21:5 And the one seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new!” Then he said to me, “Write it down, because these words are reliable and true.” 21:6 He also said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water free of charge from the spring of the water of life. 21:7 The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 21:8 But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”

21:9 “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!” 21:10 So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. 21:11 The city possesses the glory of God;

21:22 Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God – the All-Powerful – and the Lamb are its temple. 21:23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb. 21:24 The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it. 21:25 Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there). 21:26 They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it, 21:27 but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

22:1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life – water as clear as crystal – pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 22:2 flowing down the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations. 22:3 And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him, 22:4 and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 22:5 Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

"The wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience" - Colossians 3:1-17

Exhortations to Seek the Things Above

3:1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 3:2 Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth, 3:3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 3:4 When Christ (who is your ¹ life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him. 3:5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: ² sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, ³ evil desire, and greed which is idolatry. 3:6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. ⁴ 3:7 You also lived your lives ⁵ in this way at one time, when you used to live among them. 3:8 But now, put off all such things ⁶ as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth. 3:9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices 3:10 and have been clothed with the new man ⁷ that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it. 3:11 Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave ⁸ or free, but Christ is all and in all.

Exhortation to Unity and Love

3:12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, ⁹ kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, 3:13 bearing with one another and forgiving ¹⁰ one another, if someone happens to have ¹¹ a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others. ¹² 3:14 And to all these ¹³ virtues ¹⁴ add ¹⁵ love, which is the perfect bond. ¹⁶ 3:15 Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body ¹⁷ to this peace), and be thankful. 3:16 Let the word of Christ ¹⁸ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace ¹⁹ in your hearts to God. 3:17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

"Christ is your Righteousness"

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1Co 1:30

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, 1 who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

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Rom 10:6

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, 1 ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” 2 (that is, to bring Christ down)

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Rom 8:10

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but 1 the Spirit is your life 2 because of righteousness.

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Phi 1:11

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

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1Jo 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you also know 1 that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered 2 by him.

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Gal 5:4

You who are trying to be declared righteous 1 by the law have been alienated 2 from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

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Psa 119:142

Your justice endures, 1 and your law is reliable. 2

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Rom 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

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Rom 10:10

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness 1 and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation. 2

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Phi 3:9

and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness 1 – a righteousness from God that is in fact 2 based on Christ’s 3 faithfulness. 4

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2Pe 1:1

From Simeon 1 Peter, 2 a slave 3 and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God 4 and Savior, 5 Jesus Christ, have been granted 6 a faith just as precious 7 as ours.

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Isa 57:12

I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, 1 but they will not help you.

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Gal 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, 1 and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So 2 the life I now live in the body, 3 I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, 4 who loved me and gave himself for me.

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Psa 119:40

Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance! 1

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1Jo 3:7

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness 1 is righteous, just as Jesus 2 is righteous.

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Rom 3:22

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ 1 for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

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Gal 3:27

For all of you who 1 were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

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Phm 1:25

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be 1 with your spirit. 2

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Gal 2:21

I do not set aside 1 God’s grace, because if righteousness 2 could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing! 3

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Phi 4:23

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 1

Righteous or Not

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Psa 119:142

Your justice endures, 1 and your law is reliable. 2

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Isa 32:17

Fairness will produce peace 1 and result in lasting security. 2

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Rom 4:22

So indeed it was credited to Abraham 1 as righteousness.

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Psa 11:3

When the foundations 1 are destroyed, what can the godly 2 accomplish?” 3

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Eze 33:18

When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

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1Jo 3:7

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness 1 is righteous, just as Jesus 2 is righteous.

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Pro 8:20

I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,

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Isa 57:12

I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, 1 but they will not help you.

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Psa 11:7

Certainly 1 the Lord is just; 2 he rewards godly deeds; 3 the upright will experience his favor. 4

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Psa 125:3

Indeed, 1 the scepter of a wicked king 2 will not settle 3 upon the allotted land of the godly. Otherwise the godly might do what is wrong. 4

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Pro 21:21

The one who pursues righteousness and love 1 finds life, bounty, 2 and honor.

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Rom 10:3

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

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Psa 119:138

The rules you impose are just, 1 and absolutely reliable.

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Pro 11:31

If the righteous are recompensed on earth, 1 how much more 2 the wicked sinner! 3

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Isa 1:27

1 Zion will be freed by justice, 2 and her returnees by righteousness. 3

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Luk 1:75

in holiness and righteousness 1 before him for as long as we live. 2

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Jam 1:20

For human 1 anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. 2

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Rom 9:30

What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

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Psa 37:29

The godly will possess the land and will dwell in it permanently.

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Eze 33:13

Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.