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Revelation 21:27

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There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

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Jerusalem here is the New Jerusalem, the heavenly city portrayed in Revelation 21 as God’s final dwelling with his redeemed people. Its holiness matters because the verse stresses that nothing unclean enters it; only those written in the Lamb’s book of life belong there.

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Revelation 21:27 mentions Jerusalem.

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