“Those people who washed their robes {\cf2\super [174]} will be blessed. They will have the right to \{eat the food from\} the tree of life. They can go through the gates into the city.
The Lord God made every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, the Lord God put the tree of life and also the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
The Lord God said, “Look, the man has become like us—he knows about good and evil. And now the man might take the fruit from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit, he will live forever.”
Are you greater than Jacob {\cf2\super [62]} our father {\cf2\super [63]} ? Jacob is the one that gave us this well. He drank from it himself. Also, his sons and all his animals drank water from this well.”
We have the right to bring a believing wife with us when we travel, don’t we? The other apostles {\cf2\super [53]} and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas all do this.
When a person is in Christ Jesus, it is not important if he is circumcised or not. The important thing is faith—the kind of faith that works through love.
Grace (kindness), mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from his Son, Jesus Christ. We receive these blessings through truth and love.
“Every person that hears these things should listen to what the Spirit {\cf2\super [14]} says to the churches. To the person that wins the victory I will give the right to eat \{the fruit\} from the tree of life. This tree is in the garden of God.
The city had a large, high wall with twelve gates. There were twelve angels at the gates. On each gate was written the name of one of the twelve family groups of Israel. {\cf2\super [161]}
It flows down the middle of the street of the city. The tree of life was on each side of the river. The tree of life makes fruit twelve times a year. It gives fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for healing all the people.