Jeremiah 5:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty?
You struck them, but they did not flinch;
you laid them low, but they refused correction;
They set their faces harder than stone,
and refused to return.(A)
Revelation 3:17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
17 [a](A)For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
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- 3:17 Economic prosperity occasioned spiritual bankruptcy.
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