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Wahyu 21:27

27 But nothing that defiles or profanes or is [fn] unwashed shall ever enter it, nor anyone who commits abominations (unclean, detestable, morally repugnant things) or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Book;   Church;   Falsehood;   Heaven;   Jerusalem;   Jesus Continued;   Lamb of God;   Readings, Select;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Admission, Exclusion;   Book;   Citizenship, Heavenly;   Exclusion;   Future, the;   Heaven;   Heavenly;   Home;   The Topic Concordance - Jerusalem;   Name;   Newness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holiness of God, the;   Lying;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Book of life;   City;   Evil;   Judgment;   Lie;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Create, Creation;   Lie, Lying;   New Heavens and a New Earth;   Temple;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Life;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Lie;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Book;   Church;   Heaven;   Leper;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abomination, Abomination of Desolation;   Book of Life;   Heaven;   Heavens, New;   Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Book of Life;   Lie, Lying;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abomination ;   Book of Life;   Clean, Unclean, Common;   Day of Judgment;   Honest;   Lamb;   Life and Death;   Lying ;   New Jerusalem;   Presence (2);   Revelation, Book of;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Tree of Life;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Book of Life, the;   Lamb;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Church;   Gareb;   Judah;   Naked;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Book;   Lamb;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Sanctification;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Book of Life;   Immortal;   Lie;   Make;   Revelation of John:;   Uncleanness;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Book of life;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 3;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
27 But nothing that defiles or profanes or is [fn] unwashed shall ever enter it, nor anyone who commits abominations (unclean, detestable, morally repugnant things) or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Contextual Overview

9 And there came vnto me one of the seuen angels whiche had the seuen vyals full of the seuen last plagues, and talked with me, saying: Come hyther, I wyll shewe thee the bryde, the lambes wyfe. 10 And he caryed me away in the spirite to a great and an hye mountayne, and he shewed me the great citie holy Hierusalem, descendyng out of heauen fro God, 11 Hauing the glorie of God: and her shining was lyke vnto a stone most precious, euen lyke a Iasper, cleare as Cristall. 12 And had walles great and hye, & had xij. gates, and at the gates .xij. angels, & names written, which are the names of the .xij. tribes of Israel. 13 On the east syde three gates, and on the north syde three gates, and towards the south three gates, and fro the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the citie had .xij. foundations, and in them the .xij. names of the lambes .xij. Apostles. 15 And he that talked with me had a golden reede to measure the citie withall, and the gates thereof, and the wall therof. 16 And the citie was buylt foure square, & the length was as large as ye breadth: and he measured the citie with the reede twelue thousande furlonges, and the length, and the breadth, and the heyght of it were equall. 17 And he measured the wall thereof an hundreth and fourtie and foure cubites, by the measure of man, that is of the angell. 18 And the buylding of the wall of it was of Iasper, and the citie was pure golde lyke vnto cleare glasse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

there: Leviticus 13:46, Numbers 5:3, Numbers 12:15, Psalms 101:8, Isaiah 35:8, Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 60:21, Joel 3:17, Matthew 13:41, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:10, Galatians 5:19-21, Ephesians 5:5, Hebrews 12:14

worketh: Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:5

or maketh: Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:14, Revelation 22:15

they: Revelation 3:5, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 20:15, Philippians 4:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:36 - HOLINESS Exodus 32:32 - blot me Leviticus 13:57 - shalt burn Numbers 26:53 - General Numbers 35:34 - I dwell Deuteronomy 25:16 - all that do Deuteronomy 33:28 - Israel Psalms 5:4 - evil Psalms 24:4 - pure Psalms 45:7 - hatest Psalms 69:36 - they Psalms 93:5 - holiness Proverbs 6:16 - an Song of Solomon 4:12 - garden Isaiah 1:26 - thou shalt Isaiah 4:3 - written Isaiah 11:9 - not hurt Ezekiel 33:26 - work Ezekiel 41:12 - separate Ezekiel 43:12 - Upon Obadiah 1:17 - there shall be holiness Zephaniah 3:13 - nor Zechariah 8:3 - the holy Zechariah 14:21 - no more Matthew 5:20 - ye Matthew 15:20 - which Matthew 18:9 - to enter Matthew 22:13 - Bind Luke 10:20 - your John 1:29 - Behold John 3:7 - Ye Acts 26:18 - sanctified Galatians 5:21 - that they Ephesians 5:27 - but Colossians 3:9 - Lie 1 Timothy 1:10 - for liars Titus 1:16 - being 1 Peter 1:4 - undefiled 2 Peter 3:13 - according

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis 21:23
And nowe therefore, sweare vnto me euen here by God, that thou wylt not hurt me, nor my chyldren, nor my chyldrens children: but that thou shalt deale with me and the countrey where thou hast ben a straunger, accordyng vnto the kyndnesse that I haue shewed thee.
Genesis 21:28
And Abraham set seuen ewe lambes by them selues.
Genesis 21:31
Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.
Genesis 31:44
Nowe therfore come on, and let vs make a league I and thou, which may be a wytnesse betwene me and thee.
1 Samuel 18:3
Then Ionathan and Dauid made a couenaunt, because he loued him as his owne soule.
Proverbs 17:8
A gyft is as a precious stone vnto hym that hath it: but vnto whom soeuer it turneth, it maketh hym vnwise.
Proverbs 18:16
A mans gyft maketh an open way, to bryng hym before great men.
Proverbs 18:24
A man that wyll haue frendes, must shewe hym selfe frendly: and there is a frende whiche is nearer then a brother.
Proverbs 21:14
A priuie rewarde pacifieth displeasure: and a gyft in the bosome [stylleth] furiousnesse.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth,.... As evil thoughts, words, and actions do; and therefore he that enters into this city must be free from all these: or "that is defiled", as the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read; or "that is unclean", as the Arabic and Ethiopic versions; alluding to the tabernacle and temple, into which no unclean person might come; see

Isaiah 52:1. No profane sinner, whose mind and conscience are defiled, and whose conversation is defiling, may enter here; nor any self-righteous person, whose righteousness is as filthy rags, and he himself is as an unclean thing, shall be admitted here; only such who are washed in the blood of Christ, and have on his righteousness, and so are without spot or wrinkle; which shows the pure and perfect state of this church and therefore cannot design any state of the church previous to the coming of Christ and the first resurrection:

neither whatsoever worketh abomination; commits sin, which is abominable in the sight of God, lives and dies in a course of wickedness; or particularly is guilty of idolatry, either makes idols, or serves them, or both, which are an abomination to the Lord; see

1 Kings 11:7

or maketh a lie; any lie in general; who is a common liar, loves and invents a lie, and speaks one; delivers that which is false with an intention to deceive; or in particular, who embraces and propagates antichristian lies, doctrinal ones, lies spoken in hypocrisy; such shall be damned; see 1 Timothy 4:1 but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life; who are predestinated to eternal life; and though they are naturally, and in themselves defiled and sinful creatures, yet they are justified by the righteousness of Christ, and sanctified by his Spirit, and so are made meet and fit to enter this city; 1 Timothy 4:1- :. It is by the Jews observed d, that

"the Jerusalem of the world to come is not as the Jerusalem of this world; the Jerusalem of this world, whoever would go up to it (or enter into it) might; but that of the world to come, אין עולין אלא המזומנין לה, "none may go up to it (or enter into it) but those who are prepared", or appointed for it.''

d T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 75. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And there shall in no wise - On no account; by no means. This strong language denotes the absolute exclusion of all that is specified in the verse.

Anything that defileth - Literally, anything “common.” See the notes on Acts 10:14. It means here that nothing will be found in that blessed abode which is unholy or sinful. It will be a pure world, 2 Peter 3:13.

Neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie - See the notes on Revelation 21:8.

But they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life - Whose names are there recorded. See the notes on Revelation 3:5. Compare the notes on Revelation 21:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 21:27. There shall in nowise enter into it any thing that defileth — See Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 52:1. Neither an impure person-he who turns the grace of God into lasciviousness, nor a liar-he that holds and propagates false doctrines.

But they which are written — The acknowledged persevering members of the true Church of Christ shall enter into heaven, and only those who are saved from their sins shall have a place in the Church militant.

ALL Christians are bound by their baptism to renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh; to keep God's holy word and commandments; and to walk in the same all the days of their life. This is the generation of them that seek thy face, O God of Jacob! Reader, art thou of this number? Or art thou expecting an eternal glory while living in sin? If so, thou wilt be fearfully disappointed. Presuming on the mercy of God is as ruinous as despairing of his grace. Where God gives power both to will and to do, the individual should work out his salvation with fear and trembling.


 
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