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 blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

There is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing;
Another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth.

And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors they will find in me

No iniquity, which would be sin.”

Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them.

“He has filled the hungry with good things;
And sent away the rich empty-handed.

But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full.

The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;

For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.

Have need

otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them,

That I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?”
Or that I not be in want and steal,
And profane the name of my God.

“O generation, heed the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
Or a land of thick darkness?
Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam;
We will no longer come to You’?

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

Knowest

But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon 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 set me free from

the body of this death?

Blind

Who is blind but My servant,
Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send?
Who is so blind as he that is

at peace with Me,

Or so blind as the servant of the Lord?

Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

General references

“O

naive ones, understand prudence;

And, O fools, understand wisdom.

“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!”
To him who lacks understanding she says,

Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.