Revelation 3:17
For you declare, ‘I am wealthy, and I have been enriched further, and I have need of nothing.’ And you do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
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Genesis 3:10And he said, “I heard your voice in Paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and so I hid myself.”
Deuteronomy 8:12Otherwise, after you have eaten and been satisfied, and have built beautiful houses and have lived in them,
Proverbs 30:9lest perhaps, being filled, I might be enticed into denial, and say: ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or, being compelled by destitution, I might steal, and then perjure myself in the name of my God.
Jeremiah 2:31Consider the word of the Lord. Have I become like a wilderness to Israel, or like a land late to bear fruit? Then why have my people said, ‘We are withdrawing; we will no longer approach you’?
Zechariah 11:5which those who possessed them cut down, and they did not feel sorrow, and they sold them, saying: “Blessed be the Lord; we have become wealthy. Even their shepherds did not spare them.”
Matthew 9:12But Jesus, hearing this, said: “It is not those who are healthy who are in need of a physician, but those who have maladies.
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 →