Matthew 6:23

but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If however the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be!

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eyesight is good, your whole body will be well lighted;

24"No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.

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Cross References

Matthew 20:15Have I not a right to do what I choose with my own property? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

Mark 7:22covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, reviling, pride, reckless folly:

John 9:39"I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may 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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