Revelation 3:17

Revelation chapter 3 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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:

Context

v.16So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

v.17This passage

v.18I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Romans 11:20

    Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

  • Romans 7:24

    Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

  • Genesis 3:10

    And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

  • Deuteronomy 8:12

    lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

  • Zechariah 11:5

    whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.

  • Proverbs 13:7

    There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.