Parallel Verses
NET Bible
But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
New American Standard Bible
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!
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light within you has turned into darkness, how great is that darkness!"
A Conservative Version
But if thine eye is bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is the darkness!
American Standard 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 the darkness!
Amplified
An Understandable Version
But if your eye sees things wrongly, [then] your whole body [i.e., your entire life] will be full of darkness [i.e., will not be lived properly]. If therefore, the light you have is [really] darkness [i.e., if you are not seeing life properly], that darkness will be very great [i.e., you cannot possibly live properly].
Anderson New Testament
But if your eye be diseased, your whole body will be dark. If therefore, the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Bible in Basic English
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
Common New Testament
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Daniel Mace New Testament
but if your eye be bad, your whole body will be dark: if therefore that, which should be light to you, be dark; how great is that darkness?
Darby Translation
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!
Godbey New Testament
If thine eye may be bad, thy whole body will be dark. Then if the light which is in you is darkness, the darkness is so great.
Goodspeed New Testament
but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, your very light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be!
John Wesley New Testament
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?
Julia Smith Translation
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness
King James 2000
But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Lexham Expanded Bible
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!
Modern King James verseion
But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But and if thine eye be wicked, then all thy body shall be full of darkness. Wherefore if the light that is in thee, be darkness: how great is that darkness?
Moffatt New Testament
but if your Eye is selfish, the whole of your body will be darkened. And if your very light turns dark, then ??what a darkness it is!
Montgomery New Testament
"but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!
New Heart English Bible
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
Noyes New Testament
but if thine eye be disordered, thy whole body will be in darkness. If then the light that is within thee is darkness, how great that darkness!
Sawyer New Testament
but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
The Emphasized Bible
But, if thine eye be, evil, thy whole body, shall be, in the dark; - if therefore, the light which is in thee, is, darkness, the darkness, how great!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But if thine eye be vitiated, thy whole body will be darkened. If therefore the light which is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!
Webster
But if thy eye be evil, thy whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Weymouth New Testament
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!
Williams New Testament
But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!
World English Bible
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!
Worrell New Testament
but, if your eye be evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light that is in you be darkness, how great the darkness!
Worsley New Testament
but if thine eye be bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Youngs Literal Translation
but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!
Themes
Blindness » Example of spiritual
spiritual Blindness » The effect of sin
Darkness » The wicked » Being Full of
Eyes » Illustrative » Of the mind
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Usage: 585
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 6:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Light Of The Body
22 "The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24 "No one can serve two masters, for 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 God and money.
Cross References
Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Isaiah 5:20-21
Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.
Isaiah 8:20
Then you must recall the Lord's instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.
Isaiah 44:18-20
They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.
Jeremiah 4:22
The Lord answered, "This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good."
Jeremiah 8:8-9
How can you say, "We are wise! We have the law of the Lord"? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.
Matthew 6:22
"The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
Matthew 20:15
Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
Matthew 23:16-28
"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.'
Luke 8:10
He said, "You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand.
John 9:39-41
Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."
Romans 1:22
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
Romans 2:17-23
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God
1 Corinthians 1:18-20
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
Ephesians 5:8
for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light --
1 John 2:11
But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Revelation 3:17-18
Because you say, "I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing," but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,
Mark 7:22
adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.