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Revelation 21:24

By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.
Revelation 21:24 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
  • KJV And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
  • NKJV And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.
  • NASB The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
  • NLT The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the world will enter the city in all their glory.

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Quick answer

The nations walk in the city's light and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it. The redeemed of all peoples honor God in the new creation.

Overview

This draws on Isaiah 60, where nations and kings stream to Zion's light bringing their treasures. It shows the gospel's reach to all peoples, gathered into the people of God through the Lamb (cf. 5:9; 7:9). The best of human cultures is purified and offered to the glory of God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Rev 22:2down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
  • Rev 21:26And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.
  • Zech 8:22–23And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD.”
  • Zech 2:11“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
  • Isa 66:18“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
  • Rom 15:10–12Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”
  • Isa 60:16You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
  • Isa 52:15so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.
  • Isa 60:3–10Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
  • Isa 55:5Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”
  • Ps 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
  • Ps 72:10–11May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
  • Rom 15:16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
  • Isa 2:2In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
  • Jer 4:2and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
  • Rom 15:26For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
  • Isa 55:10For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
  • Deut 32:43Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
  • Isa 2:5Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
  • Isa 60:13The glory of Lebanon will come to you—its cypress, elm, and boxwood together—to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.
  • Isa 66:11–12so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

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Christ at the center

Revelation ends the story with the slain-yet-standing Lamb who is worthy, the Lion of Judah, the Alpha and Omega, the returning King who makes all things new and dwells with his people forever.

How Revelation 21:24 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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