Matthew 6:23

Modern English Version

But if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Cross References

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish 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 lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

Matthew 6:22

“The light of the body is the eye. Therefore, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

Mark 7:22

theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an envious eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Luke 11:34

The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

Luke 8:10

He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Ephesians 4:18

having their understanding darkened, excluded from the life of God through the ignorance that is within them, due to the hardness of their hearts.

Ephesians 5:8

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light —

1 John 2:11

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