Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.
Matthew 6:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness! American Standard Version (1901) But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness! Common English Bible But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how terrible that darkness will be! Catholic Public Domain Version But if your eye has been corrupted, your entire body will be darkened. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great will that darkness be! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great shall it be! |
Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.
for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!
“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly.
Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but if it is unhealthy, your body is full of darkness.
He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others I speak in parables, so that ‘looking they may not perceive and hearing they may not understand.’
Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.
for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light,
But whoever hates a brother or sister is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.