Matthew 6:23

Good News Translation

but if your eyes are no good, your body will be in darkness. So if the light in you is darkness, how terribly dark it will be!

Cross References

Proverbs 26:12

The most stupid fool is better off than those who think they are wise when they are not.

Isaiah 8:20

You are to answer them, “Listen to what the Lord is teaching you! Don't listen to mediums—what they tell you cannot keep trouble away.”

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good.”

Matthew 20:15

Don't I have the right to do as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous?’”

Matthew 6:22

“The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eyes are sound, your whole body will be full of light;

Mark 7:22

commit adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency, jealousy, slander, pride, and folly—

Luke 11:34

Your eyes are like a lamp for the body. When your eyes are sound, your whole body is full of light; but when your eyes are no good, your whole body will be in darkness.

Luke 8:10

and he answered, “The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of God has been given to you, but to the rest it comes by means of parables, so that they may look but not see, and listen but not understand.

Romans 1:22

They say they are wise, but they are fools;

1 Corinthians 2:14

Whoever does not have the Spirit cannot receive the gifts that come from God's Spirit. Such a person really does not understand them, and they seem to be nonsense, because their value can be judged only on a spiritual basis.

Ephesians 4:18

and whose minds are in the dark. They have no part in the life that God gives, for they are completely ignorant and stubborn.

Ephesians 5:8

You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord's people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light,

1 John 2:11

But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind.