Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.
Matthew 6:23 - New International Version (Anglicised) But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.
Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
‘My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.’
Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?”
‘The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness.
He said, ‘The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘ “though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.”
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light
But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.