Revelation 21:3

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
KJV

καὶ ἤκουσα φωνῆς μεγάλης ἐκ τοῦ θρόνου λεγούσης, ἰδοὺ ἡ σκηνὴ τοῦ θεοῦ μετὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ σκηνώσει μετ’ αὐτῶν, καὶ αὐτοὶ λαοὶ αὐτοῦ ἔσονται, καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς ἔσται μετ’ αὐτῶν,
Greek NT

Et audivi vocem magnam de throno dicentem : Ecce tabernaculum Dei cum hominibus, et habitabit cum eis. Et ipsi populus ejus erunt, et ipse Deus cum eis erit eorum Deus :
Vulgate

And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and betheir God:
ASV

And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people: and God himself with them shall be their God.
Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός

autos

pronoun · 5564×

εἰμί

eimi

verb · 2461×

θεός

theos

noun · 1311×

θρόνος

thronos

noun · 62×

καί

kai

conjunction · 8973×

λέγω

lego

verb · 2256×

λαός

laos

noun · 144×

μέγας

megas

adjective · 244×

μετά

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

Zech 8:8 · echo

"And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness."

Zechariah: they shall be my people and I will be their God — new Jerusalem

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor

SBLGNT: θρόνου | WH/NIV: θρόνου | Treg/RP: οὐρανοῦ

θρόνου — SBLGNT
θρόνου — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
οὐρανοῦ — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont

source: sblgnt-apparatus

minor

SBLGNT: λαοὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: λαοὶ | RP: λαὸς

λαοὶ — SBLGNT
λαοὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
λαὸς — Robinson-Pierpont

source: sblgnt-apparatus

notable

SBLGNT: μετ᾽ αὐτῶν ἔσται | WH/Treg: μετ᾽ αὐτῶν ἔσται | RP: ἔσται μετ᾽ αὐτῶν | NIV: μετ᾽ αὐτῶν ἔσται αὐτῶν θεός

μετ᾽ αὐτῶν ἔσται — SBLGNT
μετ᾽ αὐτῶν ἔσται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
ἔσται μετ᾽ αὐτῶν — Robinson-Pierpont
μετ᾽ αὐτῶν ἔσται αὐτῶν θεός — Reader's GNT (NA27)

source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Temple and Tabernacle

Prophecy

The New Jerusalem

Theophany

Vision of the New Jerusalem

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Catechism of the Catholic Church · 4 passages

§117The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs. 1. the allegorical sense. We can acquire a more profound understanding of events by recognizing their significance in Christ; thus the crossing of the Red Sea is a sign or type of Christ's victory and also of Christian Bapt…

§677The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.578 The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven.579 God's t…

§756"Often, too, the Church is called the building of God. the Lord compared himself to the stone which the builders rejected, but which was made into the comer-stone. On this foundation the Church is built by the apostles and from it the Church receives solidity and unity. This edifice has many names to describe it: the house of God in which his family dwells; the household of God…

…and 1 more from this source.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Cross-references

1Kgs 6:13 — And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
1Kgs 8:27 — But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
1Thess 4:17 — Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Tim 6:16 — Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
2Chr 6:18 — But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
2Cor 6:16 — And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my p
2Cor 6:16 — And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my p
2Cor 6:18 — And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Exod 6:7 — And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exod 25:8 — And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
Exod 29:45 — And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
Exod 40:34 — Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Ezek 34:24 — And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezek 37:23 — Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein th
Ezek 37:27 — My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezek 37:27 — My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezek 43:7 — And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of
Ezek 48:35 — It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Gen 15:1 — After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
Gen 17:7 — And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Heb 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, an
Heb 11:16 — But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Hos 2:23 — And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art m
Isa 12:6 — Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Jer 30:22 — And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Jer 31:33 — But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God
Jer 31:33 — But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God
Jer 32:38 — And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Joel 2:27 — And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Joel 3:21 — For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 14:23 — Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
John 20:17 — Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Lev 26:11 — And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
Lev 26:11 — And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
Matt 13:43 — Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matt 18:20 — For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Num 5:3 — Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
Num 18:20 — And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.