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 13:7There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
• Rom 7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
• Hos 12:8And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
• Rev 2:9I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
• Rev 16:15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
• Luke 1:53He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
• Deut 8:12–14Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
• Matt 9:12But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
• John 9:40–41And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
• Gen 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
• Luke 18:11–12The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
• 2 Pet 1:9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
• 1 Cor 4:8–10Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
• Matt 5:3Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Exod 32:35And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
• Luke 6:24But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
• Zech 11:5Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
• Gen 3:10–11And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
• Rom 11:25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
• Prov 30:9Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
• Isa 42:19Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant?
• Jer 2:31O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
• Rom 2:17–23Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
• Rom 11:20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

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