Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, then your whole body will be in the dark. If the ‘light’ you have is actually darkness, how dark is that!
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Isaiah 5:20Tragedy is coming to you who say evil is good, and good is evil; who turn darkness into light and light into darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.
Isaiah 44:18How ignorant they are, how dumb! Their eyes have been plastered over so they can't see, their minds closed so they don't have insight.
Jeremiah 8:8How on earth can you say, “We're wise, and we have the Law of the Lord?” Can't you see that the writings of your teachers of the Law have turned it into lies?
Matthew 20:15Can't I choose to do what I want with my own money? Why should you give me evil looks because I want to do good?’
Mark 7:22greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, thoughtlessness—
John 9:39Then Jesus told him, “I've come into the world to bring judgment so that those who are blind may see, and those who see will 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 →