Revelation 3:17

Conservative English Version

You claim to be rich and successful and to have everything you need. But you don't know how bad off you are. You are pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

Cross References

Genesis 3:7

Right away they saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to make something to cover themselves.

Exodus 32:35

So the LORD punished the people of Israel with a terrible disease for talking Aaron into making the gold idol.

Proverbs 13:7

Some who have nothing may pretend to be rich, and some who have everything may pretend to be poor.

Proverbs 30:9

If I have too much to eat, I might forget about you; if I don't have enough, I might steal and disgrace your name.

Isaiah 42:19

No one is as blind or deaf as his messenger, his chosen servant,

Jeremiah 2:31

Now listen to what I say! Did I abandon you in the desert or surround you with darkness? You are my people, yet you have told me, "We'll do what we want, and we refuse to worship you!"

Hosea 12:8

You say to yourself, "I'm rich! I earned it all on my own, without committing a sin."

Zechariah 11:5

The people who buy and butcher them go unpunished, while everyone who sells them says, "Praise the LORD! I'm rich." Not even their shepherds have pity on them.

Matthew 5:3

God blesses those people who depend only on him. They belong to the kingdom of heaven!

Matthew 9:12

Jesus heard them and answered, "Healthy people don't need a doctor, but sick people do.

Luke 1:53

God gives the hungry good things to eat, and sends the rich away with nothing.

Luke 6:24

But you rich people are in for trouble. You have already had an easy life!

Romans 11:20

That's true enough. But they were cut away because they did not have faith, and you are where you are because you do have faith. So don't be proud, but be afraid.

Romans 11:25

My friends, I don't want you Gentiles to be too proud of yourselves. So I will explain the mystery of what has happened to the people of Israel. Some of them have become stubborn, and they will stay like that until the complete number of you Gentiles has come in.

Romans 12:3

I realize how kind God has been to me, and so I tell each of you not to think you are better than you really are. Use good sense and measure yourself by the amount of faith that God has given you.

Romans 7:24

What a miserable person I am. Who will rescue me from this body that is doomed to die?

2 Peter 1:9

But if you don't grow, you are like someone who is nearsighted or blind, and you have forgotten that your past sins are forgiven.

Revelation 16:15

Remember that Christ says, "When I come, it will surprise you like a thief! But God will bless you, if you are awake and ready. Then you won't have to walk around naked and be ashamed."

Revelation 2:9

I know how much you suffer and how poor you are, but you are rich. I also know the cruel things being said about you by people who claim to be Jews. But they are not really Jews. They are a group that belongs to Satan.

Revelation 3:16

But since you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth.