Revelation 21:25 (YLT)

Passage

and its gates shall not at all be shut by day, for night shall not be there;

Nearby Context

Revelation 21:23 and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it <FI>is<Fi> the Lamb;

Revelation 21:24 and the nations of the saved in its light shall walk, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it,

Revelation 21:25 and its gates shall not at all be shut by day, for night shall not be there;

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

Revelation 21:27 and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 24's "and the nations of the saved in..." into verse 26's "and they shall bring the glory and...", so "gates" and "shall" 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 "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.