Revelation 21:25 (ASV)

Passage

And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):

Nearby Context

Revelation 21:23 And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof [is] the Lamb.

Revelation 21:24 And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it.

Revelation 21:25 And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):

Revelation 21:26 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it:

Revelation 21:27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb`s book of life.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "gates", "thereof", "shall", "wise", "shut", and "night". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "gates" and "thereof", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 24's "And the nations shall walk amidst the..." into verse 26's "and they shall bring the glory and...", so "gates" and "thereof" belong inside that flow. In Revelation context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "gates" and "thereof" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.