Matthew 6:23

"but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

Montgomery New Testament

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. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted;

24"No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.

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Cross References

Matthew 20:15"Have I not the right to do what I choose with my own property? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?’

Mark 7:22fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly -

John 9:39"For judgment am I come into the world, to make the sightless see, and to make the seeing 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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