Revelation 3:18

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

Majority Standard Bible

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

17You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

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Cross References

Psalms 16:7I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.

Psalms 73:24You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.

Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

Ecclesiastes 8:2Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.

Isaiah 55:1“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

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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