Revelation 3:18

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Revelation 3:18

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Summary

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.

Counsel

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Buy

Gold

Malachi 3:3

1 Corinthians 3:12

1 Peter 1:7

That thou

James 2:5

White

2 Corinthians 5:3

The shame

Anoint

John 9:6

1 John 2:20

General references

Bible References

Counsel

I will thank the LORD for giving me warning: my reins also chasten me in the night season.

I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will guide thee with mine eye.

Thou leadest me with thy counsel, and afterward receivest me unto glory.

because they were not obedient to the commandments of God, but lightly regarded the counsel of the most highest - he also brought down their hearts through heaviness.

but all my counsels have ye despised and set my corrections to naught.

O give ear unto good counsel, and be content to be reformed; that thou mayest be wise here after.

Keep the king's commandment, I warn thee, and the oath that thou hast made unto God.

Buy

Labour for to get the truth, sell not away wisdom, nurture and understanding;

Come to the waters, all ye that be thirsty, and ye that have no money. Come buy, that ye may have to eat. Come buy wine and milk, without any money, or money worth.

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in the field, the which a man findeth and hideth it: and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

But the wise answered, saying, 'Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you, but go rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.'

Gold

And he shall sit trying and purging silver, and shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall fine them as gold and silver. And they shall bring offering unto the LORD of righteousness.

If any man build on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, timber, hay, or stubble:

that your faith, once tried, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto laud, glory, and honour, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

That thou

I know thy works and tribulation and poverty, but thou art rich. And I know the blasphemy of them which call themselves Jews and are not, but are the congregation of Satan.

So is it with him that gathered riches, and is not rich in God."

Ye know the liberality of our Lord Jesus Christ, which though he were rich, yet for your sakes became poor: that ye through his poverty might be made rich.

and that they do good and be rich in good works, and ready to give and to distribute,

Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him?

White

Thou hast a few names in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, "What are these which are arrayed in long white garments, and whence came they?"

"Behold I come as a thief. Happy is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments; Lest he be found naked, and men see his filthiness."

And to her was granted, that she should be arrayed with pure and goodly raynes" - For the raynes is the righteousness of saints.

so yet if it happen that we be found clothed, and not naked.

The shame

"Behold I come as a thief. Happy is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments; Lest he be found naked, and men see his filthiness."

Thy shame shall be discovered, and thy privities shall be seen. For I will avenge me of thee, and will show no mercy to thee as I do to other men,

Therefore shall I turn thy clothes over thy head, and uncover thy thighs, that thy privates may be seen:

Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to perpetual shame and reproof.

Thou that dwellest at Shaphir, get thee hence with shame. The proud shall boost no more for very sorrow. And why? Her neighbour shall take from her what she hath.

Behold, I will upon thee, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, and will pull thy clothes over thy head: that I may show thy nakedness among the Heathen, and thy shame among the kingdoms.

Anoint

As soon as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind,

But ye have an ointment of the holy ghost, and ye know all things.

General references

for the getting of it is better than any merchandise of silver, and the profit of it is better than gold.

Take heed unto knowledge, O ye ignorant; be wise in heart, O ye fools.

"Whoso is ignorant, let him come hither!" And to the unwise she said,

Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.