Revelation 3:17
because you say—I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and have not known that you are the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16So—because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit you out of My mouth;
Cross References
Genesis 3:10And he says, “I have heard Your sound in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.”
Deuteronomy 8:12lest you eat and have been satisfied, and build good houses and have inhabited [them],
Proverbs 30:9Lest I become satiated, and have denied, || And have said, “Who [is] YHWH?” And lest I am poor, and have stolen, || And have laid hold of the Name of my God.
Jeremiah 2:31O generation, see the word of YHWH: Have I been a wilderness to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Why have My people said, || We wandered freely, || We do not come to You again.
Zechariah 11:5Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, || And their sellers say, Blessed [is] YHWH, || And I am rich, || And their shepherds have no pity on them.
Matthew 9:12And Jesus having heard, said to them, “They who are whole have no need of a physician, but they 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 →