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 have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty -- yet thou art rich -- and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of the Adversary.

There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth is abundant.

And Ephraim saith: 'Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that is sin.'

Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed is Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.

The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,

But woe to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort.

the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

Have need

lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;

Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, 'Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, 'We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'

And Jesus having heard, said to them, 'They who are whole have no need of a physician, but they who are ill;

Knowest

Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

Wretched

Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

Blind

Who is blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, Yea, blind, as the servant of Jehovah?

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

for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;

General references

Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,

Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,

take heed, then, lest the light that is in thee be darkness;

so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.