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Luke 11:35

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.

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There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

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

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light;

Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound, your body is full of darkness.

If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.