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 your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Ephraim has said, "Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin."

Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,' and their own shepherds have no pity on them.

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

"But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.

The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayedthus: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!

Have need

lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,

lest I be full and deny you and say, "Who is the LORD?" or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

And you, O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to you'?

But when he heard it, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

Knowest

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

Wretched

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

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Blind

Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD?

Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

General references

O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks sense she says,

Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.