Luke 11:34

The lamp of the body is thine eye. When thine eye is single, thy whole body also is light; but when it is evil, thy body also is dark.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

In Context

33No one, having lighted a lamp, puts it in a secret place, or under the bushel, but on the lamp-stand, that they who come in may see the light.

35Take heed therefore, lest the light that is in thee is darkness[11:35].

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Cross References

Mark 4:12that seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn, and be forgiven.

Matthew Henry on Luke 11:30-37

The Sign of the Prophet Jonah. 29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. 30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. 31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a… Read the whole commentary →

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