Matthew 6:23 - The Scriptures 2009

²³ But if your eye is evil, all your body shall be darkened. If, then, the light that is within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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

²³ 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)

²³ 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

²³ 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

²³ 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

²³ 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!

Matthew 6:23 Cross References

Proverbs 26:12

Have you seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more expectancy for a fool than for him.

Isaiah 8:20

To the Torah and to the witness! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no daybreak.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are stupid children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Matthew 20:15

Is it not right for me to do what I wish with my own? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

Matthew 6:22

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, all your body shall be enlightened.

Mark 7:22

thefts, greedy desires, wickednesses, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

Luke 11:34

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, all your body also is enlightened. But when your eye is evil, your body also is darkened.

Luke 8:10

And He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the reign of Elohim, but to the rest in parables, that ‘Seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not understand.’

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man does not receive the matters of the Spirit of Elohim, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Ephesians 4:18

having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Master. Walk as children of light –

1 John 2:11

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.