Verse 17

because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 13:7 : 7 There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.
  • Hos 12:8 : 8 And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that `is' sin.'
  • Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,
  • Rev 2:9 : 9 I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty -- yet thou art rich -- and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but `are' a synagogue of the Adversary.
  • Zech 11:5 : 5 Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed `is' Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.
  • Matt 9:12 : 12 And Jesus having heard, said to them, `They who are whole have no need of a physician, but they who are ill;
  • Exod 32:35 : 35 And Jehovah plagueth the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.
  • Matt 5:3 : 3 `Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.
  • Luke 18:11-12 : 11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess.
  • John 9:40-41 : 40 And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?' 41 Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
  • Rom 7:24 : 24 A wretched man I `am'! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
  • Rom 11:20 : 20 by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;
  • Rom 2:17-23 : 17 Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God, 18 and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law, 19 and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness, 20 an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach? 22 thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples? 23 thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?
  • Luke 1:53 : 53 The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,
  • Luke 6:24 : 24 `But wo to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort.
  • Deut 8:12-14 : 12 lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited; 13 and thy herd and thy flock be multiplied, and silver and gold be multiplied to thee; and all that is thine be multiplied: 14 `And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;
  • Gen 3:7 : 7 and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they `are' naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles.
  • Gen 3:10-11 : 10 and he saith, `Thy sound I have heard in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.' 11 And He saith, `Who hath declared to thee that thou `art' naked? of the tree of which I have commanded thee not to eat, hast thou eaten?'
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who `is' Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.
  • Isa 42:19 : 19 Who `is' blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who `is' blind as he who is at peace, Yea, blind, as the servant of Jehovah?
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, `We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 `lo, I do come as a thief; happy `is' he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --
  • 1 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together, 9 for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men; 10 we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;
  • 2 Pet 1:9 : 9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;