Revelation 3:18

I urge you to buy from me gold, tested by fire, so that you may be enriched and may be clothed in white vestments, and so that the shame of your nakedness may disappear. And anoint your eyes with an eye salve, so that you may see.

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In The King James Version

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

In Context

17For 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.

19Those whom I love, I rebuke and chastise. Therefore, be zealous and do penance.

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Cross References

Psalms 16:7Make your mercies wonderful, for you save those who hope in you.

Proverbs 1:25You have despised all my counsels, and you have neglected my rebukes.

Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days.

Ecclesiastes 8:2I heed the mouth of the king, and the commandment of an oath to God.

Isaiah 55:1All you who thirst, come to the waters. And you who have no money: hurry, buy and eat. Approach, buy wine and milk, without money and without barter.

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 →

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