Is it not lawful for me to do as me listeth, with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?
Matthew 6:23 - William Tyndale New Testament But and if thine eye be wicked, then is all thy body full of darkness. Wherefore if the light that is in thee, be 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! |
Is it not lawful for me to do as me listeth, with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?
¶ The light of the body is thine eye. Wherefore if thine eye be single, all thy body is full of light.
theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
The light of thy body is the eye. Therefore, when thine eye is single: then is all thy body full of light. But if thine eye be evil: then shall all thy body also be full of darkness.
And he said: unto you is it given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God: but to other in similitudes, that when they see, they should not see, and when they hear they should not understand.
For the natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit of god: For they are but foolishness unto him. Neither can he perceive them because he is spiritually examined:
blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, thorow the ignorancy that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts:
Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. ¶ Walk as children of light.
He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness: and cannot tell whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.