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 are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
• Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
• Hos 12:8Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
• Rev 2:9“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
• Rev 16:15“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
• Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
• Deut 8:12–14lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;
• Matt 9:12When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
• John 9:40–41Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
• Gen 3:7Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
• Luke 18:11–12The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
• 2 Pet 1:9For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
• 1 Cor 4:8–10You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Exod 32:35Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
• Luke 6:24“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.
• Zech 11:5Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
• Gen 3:10–11The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
• Rom 11:25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
• Prov 30:9lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
• Isa 42:19Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
• Jer 2:31Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’
• Rom 2:17–23Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
• Rom 11:20True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

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