Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
16So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.
Cross References
Genesis 3:10And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.
Deuteronomy 8:12And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
Proverbs 30:9For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
Jeremiah 2:31O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
Zechariah 11:5Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.
Matthew 9:12But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 3:15-22
The Church in Laodicea. ( a. d. 95.) 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and… Read the whole commentary →