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Matthew 6:23

Integrity

21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

24 No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

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BSB
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
KJV
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!
WEB
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
ASV
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 the darkness!
DARBY
but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!
BLB
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that [is] in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!
ÅB
men er øyet ditt sykt, så blir hele ditt kroppen mørk. Hvis lyset i deg er mørke, hvor stort blir ikke mørket da!
OTB
Men hvis dine øyne ikke er klare, vil hele kroppen din være full av mørke. Hvis da lyset i deg er mørke, hvor stort er ikke det mørket!
B1930
men er ditt øie sykt, da blir hele ditt legeme mørkt. Er altså lyset i dig mørke, hvor stort blir da mørket!

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Cross references

  • 1 John 2:11

    But 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.

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  • Matthew 6:22

    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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  • Isaiah 5:20–21

    Woe 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.

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  • Jeremiah 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.”

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  • Proverbs 26:12

    Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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  • 1 Corinthians 3:18–19

    Let 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.

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  • 1 Corinthians 1:18–20

    For 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.

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  • Isaiah 44:18–20

    They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.

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