Revelation 3:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I am

Have need

Knowest

Romans 2:17

Wretched

Matthew 5:3

Romans 7:24

Blind

Isaiah 42:19

John 9:40

2 Peter 1:9

General references

Bible References

I am

I know thy tribulation and thy poverty; but thou art rich; and the railing of those who say that they themselves are Jews, and are not, but a synagogue of Satan.

There is that feigneth himself rich, and hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, and hath great wealth.

And Ephraim saith, Nevertheless I am become rich, I have found me out substance; in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

whose possessors slay them without being held guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah! for I am become rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.

He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent away the rich empty.

But woe to you rich, for ye have received your consolation.

The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.

Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that we also might reign with you.

Have need

lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,

lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God.

O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee?

But Jesus hearing it, said, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.

Knowest

But if thou art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,

Wretched

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

Blind

Who is blind, but my servant? and deaf, as my messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as he in whom I have trusted, and blind as Jehovah's servant,

And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we blind also?

for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.

General references

O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith,

See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.