Revelation 3:17

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Revelation 3:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

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!

17 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.

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Revelation 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.

Proverbs 13:7

One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Hosea 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.”

Zechariah 11:5

whose 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.

Luke 1:53

He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

Luke 6:24

But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.

Luke 18:11

The 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.

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’

Romans 11:20

That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

Romans 11:25

I 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.

Romans 12:3

For 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.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Already 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!

1 Corinthians 4:9

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

Deuteronomy 8:12

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,

Deuteronomy 8:13

and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

Deuteronomy 8:14

then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Proverbs 30:9

Otherwise, 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.

Jeremiah 2:31

You 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’?

Matthew 9:12

On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

Romans 2:17

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

Romans 2:18

if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

Romans 2:19

if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

Romans 2:20

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

Romans 2:21

you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

Romans 2:22

You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Romans 2:23

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Romans 7:24

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Isaiah 42:19

Who 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?

John 9:40

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”

John 9:41

“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

2 Peter 1:9

But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

Revelation 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.”

Genesis 3:7

And 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.

Genesis 3:10

“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Genesis 3:11

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

Exodus 32:35

And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.