Matthew 6:23

but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, what will thy darkness be?

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

22The lamp of the body is the eye: if thine eye therefore be perfect, thy whole body will be illuminated;

24No man can serve two lords; for the one he will hate, and the other he will love, or the one he will honour, and the other he will neglect: you cannot serve Aloha and riches.

Read all of Matthew 6

Cross References

Matthew 20:15Is it not lawful for me that whatsoever l am willing, I may do with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

Mark 7:22rapacity, malice, fraud, obscenity, an evil eye, blasphemy, vain-glory, folly;

John 9:39Jeshu said to them, For the judgment of this world am I come, that they who see not may see, and they who see may be made 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Matthew 6:23