12 Bible Verses about Eyes, Figurative Use

"You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

"The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted;

"And why do you look at the mote in your brother's eye, and fail to notice the beam which is in your own eye? "Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to remove the mote from your eye,' when, behold, the beam is in your own eye? "Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

For the heart of his people is made fat, Their ears are dull of hearing; Their eyes, too, have they closed, Lest some day their eyes should perceive, And their ears should hear, And their heart should understand and turn, And I should heal them.

"Why are you arguing together because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive and understand?

Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

and that the eyes of your heart may be flooded with light so that you may understand what is the hope of his calling, what the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but as the slaves of Christ, doing the will of God;

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world;

They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation.

"The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted; "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!

"Why are you arguing together because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive and understand? Are your minds so slow to comprehend? You have eyes, do you not see? You have ears, do you not hear?