Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 1 Serving Two Masters

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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!

In Context

22“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

24“No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other, or else he will be devoted to the one, and he will despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. 1 Do Not Worry

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Cross References

Matthew 20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

Mark 7:22thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

John 9:39And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see might become blind.”

Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:20-25

The Sermon on the Mount. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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