Matthew 6:23

But if thy eye shall be diseased, thy whole body will be dark. If then the light that is in thee be darkness, how great will be thy darkness!

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 therefore thy eye shall be sound, thy whole body will be luminous.

24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will honor the one and neglect the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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Cross References

Matthew 20:15Is it not lawful for me, to do what I please with what belongeth to me; or is thy eye evil, because I am good?

Mark 7:22theft, murder, avarice, malice, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, reviling, haughtiness, folly.

John 9:39And Jesus said: For the judgment of this world, have I come; that they who see not, might see; and that they 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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