Study it in the app“For you say, “I am rich, and I have become wealthy, and I have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are the wretched one and pitiable and poor and blind and naked.”
Forὅτιyou say,λέγεις“I amεἰμιrich,ΠλούσιόςandκαὶI have become wealthy,πεπλούτηκαandκαὶI haveἔχωneedχρείανof nothing,”οὐδὲνandκαὶyou do notοὐκknowοἶδαςthatὅτιyouσὺareεἶthe wretched oneὁ ταλαίπωροςandκαὶpitiableἐλεεινὸςandκαὶpoorπτωχὸςandκαὶblindτυφλὸςandκαὶnaked.γυμνός
say
To express something in words to others.
Where else “legeis” appearsbe
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “eimi” appearsrich in
Rich in something good, like mercy.
Where else “Plousios” appearsbe rich
To have many possessions.
Where else “peploutēka” appearshave
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echō” appearsneed
What is lacking, required.
Where else “chreian” appearsknow
To hold a fact as certain, to be aware of it.
Where else “oidas” appearswretched
Wretched, miserable, weighed down.
Where else “talaipōros” appearspitiable
Pitiable, miserable, deserving pity.
Where else “eleeinos” appearspoor in spirit
Someone who knows they need God.
Where else “ptōchos” appearsblind to truth
Someone who does not see the truth.
Where else “typhlos” appearsnaked
Without clothes, or almost.
Where else “gymnos” appears16So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of my mouth.
17 · This verse (above)
18I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white clothes so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be exposed, and salve to put on your eyes so that you may see.
