Luke 11:34

Wisdom Purity

³² The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

³³ No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a basket. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.

³⁵ Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

³⁶ So if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining on you.”

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.
KJV: The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
WEB: The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
ASV: The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
DARBY: The lamp of the body is thine eye: when thine eye is simple, thy whole body also is light; but when it is wicked, thy body also is dark.
BLB: The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye may be sound, also your whole body is full of light; but when it may be evil, your body [is] also full of darkness.

ÅB: Ditt øye er legemets lys; når ditt øye er friskt, da er også hele ditt legeme lyst; men er det sykt, da er også ditt legeme mørkt.
OTB: Ditt øye er kroppens lampe. Når øynene dine er friske, er hele kroppen din full av lys. Men når de er syke, er kroppen din full av mørke.
B1930: Ditt øie er legemets lys; når ditt øie er friskt, da er også hele ditt legeme lyst; men er det sykt, da er også ditt legeme mørkt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Matthew 6:22–23
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
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Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
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Jeremiah 5:21
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
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Romans 11:8–10
as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
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Psalms 119:18
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
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2 Corinthians 4:4
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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Colossians 3:22
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
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