Matthew 6:23

An unhealthy eye fills the body with darkness; if your inner light is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is. A corrupted outlook ruins the whole person.

Cross-references · 21

• 1 Jn 2:11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
• Matt 6:22The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
• Isa 5:20–21Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
• Prov 26:12Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Jer 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
• 1 Cor 3:18–19Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
• 1 Cor 1:18–20For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
• Isa 44:18–20They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
• Rom 2:17–23Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
• Eph 4:18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
• 1 Cor 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Luke 8:10He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’
• Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Rom 1:22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
• Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
• Rev 3:17–18You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
• Matt 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
• Matt 23:16–28Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
• John 9:39–41Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
• Jer 8:8–9How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
• Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

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