Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is bad, your whole body shall be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Revised King James 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

22The light of the body is the eye: therefore, if your eye is sound, your whole body shall be full of light.

24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

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Cross References

Matthew 20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Is your eye envious, because I am good?

Mark 7:22Covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lustfulness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness:

John 9:39And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see might see; and that those who see might 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 →

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