Revelation 3:17

They boast of wealth and self-sufficiency but are truly wretched, poor, blind, and naked. It matters because spiritual self-deception blinds people to their real need.

Cross-references · 25

• Prov 13:7One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
• Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
• Hos 12:8And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
• Rev 2:9I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
• Rev 16:15“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
• Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
• Deut 8:12–14Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
• Matt 9:12On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
• John 9:40–41Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”
• Gen 3:7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
• Luke 18:11–12The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
• Rom 12:3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.
• 2 Pet 1:9But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
• 1 Cor 4:8–10Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Exod 32:35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
• Luke 6:24But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
• Zech 11:5whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
• Gen 3:10–11“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
• Rom 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
• Prov 30:9Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
• Isa 42:19Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?
• Jer 2:31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
• Rom 2:17–23Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
• Rom 11:20That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

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