Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
22“The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
Cross References
Matthew 20:15Or is it not permissible for me to do what I want with what is mine? Is your eye evil because I am good?’
Mark 7:22thefts, covetings, malignancies; deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness—
John 9:39And Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who ‘see’ may 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 →