Revelation 3:17 Revelation 3:17 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: Because thou sayest I am rich, and increased with goods. Rich in grace, rich in faith, and rich in good works; so the Church elders and members ought to be, and they boasted that they were so; and they said they increased in goods, in spiritual gifts, grace, and good works, &c. They boasted of their growth, and increase in spirituals; though it was otherwise with them, as Christ testified in this verse. And have need of nothing: They thus gloried in appearance, as 2 Corinthians 5:12 and 1 Corinthians 4:8 as if they needed no spiritual gifts, or grace; no admonitions nor reproofs from Christ, no power from on high, no reformation or amendment, no counsel or advice. And knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Wretched that is, in a wretched condition; First, As being without God, and without Christ, and without grace, Ephesians 2:11-12. Secondly, As being miserably captivated by their corruptions, Romans 3:11-16; Romans 3:18 and Romans 7:23-24. And poor, and blind, and naked. That is, some of them had not a grain of grace, others dark in their understanding, and others naked; that is, in a shameful, filthy, and polluted condition, Revelation 3:18, that the shame of thy nakedness doth not appear.