Revelation 3:17 meaning and explanation

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.

Revelation 3:17, Berean Standard Bible

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These are the words of the risen Christ, spoken through John to the church in Laodicea, a wealthy city known for its banking, textiles and eye medicine. The believers there had absorbed the city's self-sufficiency, judging their spiritual state by material comfort.

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