Revelation 3:17
15 I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!
16 So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!
You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
19 Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
- KJV
- Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
- WEB
- Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
- ASV
- Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:
- DARBY
- Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that *thou* art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
- BLB
- For you say, ‘I am rich, and I have grown rich, and I have need of nothing.’ And you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
- ÅB
- Fordi du sier: Jeg er rik og har overflod og fattes intet, og du vet ikke at du er ussel og ynkelig og fattig og blind og naken,
- OTB
- Du sier: ‘Jeg er rik; jeg har samlet rikdom og trenger ingenting.’ Men du innser ikke at du er elendig, ynkelig, fattig, blind og naken.
- B1930
- Fordi du sier: Jeg er rik og har overflod og fattes intet, og du vet ikke at du er ussel og ynkelig og fattig og blind og naken,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 13:7
One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
Read in contextRomans 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Read in contextHosea 12:8
And 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.”
Read in contextRevelation 2:9
I 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.
Read in contextRevelation 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.”
Read in contextLuke 1:53
He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:12–14
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
Read in contextMatthew 9:12
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
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