Revelation 3:17
You say to yourselves, ‘I'm rich, I have wealth, and don't need anything.’ But you don't know that you are miserable and pitiful and poor and blind and naked.
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16But because you're lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I'm going to spit you out of my mouth.
Cross References
Genesis 3:10“I heard you walking in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid,” he replied.
Deuteronomy 8:12For when you eat and are full, when you build beautiful houses to live in,
Proverbs 30:9Otherwise if I have plenty of money, I may give up on you, saying, “Who is the Lord?” while if I'm poor I may steal and bring the name of my God into disrepute.
Jeremiah 2:31You people of today, think about what the Lord is saying: Israel, have I treated you like an empty desert, or a land of thick darkness? Why are my people saying, “We can go where we like! We don't have to come and worship you any more”?
Zechariah 11:5Those who buy them kill them and don't feel guilty; those who sell them say, “Praise the Lord! Now I'm rich!” Even their shepherds don't care about them.
Matthew 9:12When Jesus heard the question, he replied, “Those who are well don't need a doctor, but sick people do.
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 →