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 he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
• Matt 6:22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
• Isa 5:20–21Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
• Prov 26:12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Jer 4:22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• 1 Cor 3:18–19Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• 1 Cor 1:18–20For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
• Isa 44:18–20They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
• Rom 2:17–23Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
• Eph 4:18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
• 1 Cor 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Luke 8:10And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
• Eph 5:8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
• Rev 3:17–18Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
• Matt 20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
• Matt 23:16–28Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
• John 9:39–41And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
• Jer 8:8–9How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
• Mark 7:22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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