12 Bible Verses about Eyes, Figurative Use

"Ye heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,'

"The lamp of the body is the eye. If, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be full of light;

"And why do you behold the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam in your own eye? Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to cast out the mote out of your eye;' and, behold, the beam is in your own eye? Hypocrite! Cast out first the beam out of your own eye; and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.

for the heart of this people was made gross, and with their ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I should heal them.'

And perceiving it, He saith to them, "Why are ye reasoning because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive, nor understand? Have ye your heart hardened?

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

because all that is in the world??he desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the vain-glory of life??s not of the Father, but is of the world.

having eyes full of lustfulness, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;

"The lamp of the body is the eye. If, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be full of light; 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!

And perceiving it, He saith to them, "Why are ye reasoning because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive, nor understand? Have ye your heart hardened? Having eyes, do ye see not? and, having ears, do ye hear not? And, do ye not remember?