44 Bible Verses about Eyes
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The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light.
And why behold you the speck that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?
The lamp of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is sound, your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the speck out of your brother's eye.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Either how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself behold not the beam that is in your own eye? you hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then shall you see clearly to pull out the speck that is in your brother's eye.
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!
And why behold you the speck that is in your brother's eye, but perceive not the beam that is in your own eye?
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you shall have wars.
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
And if your right eye causes you to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
And if your eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray you, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
For thus says the LORD of hosts; After his glory has he sent me unto the nations which plundered you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye.
They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye.
Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my eyes.
And the four living creatures had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
From Thematic Bible
Eyes » The jewish women often painted
And when you are plundered, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.
And furthermore, that you have sent for men to come from afar, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom you did wash yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments,
And when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and adorned her head, and looked out at a window.
Eyes » Often put out as a punishment
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of bronze, and carried him to Babylon.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he did grind in the prison house.
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Weeping
My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands unto you.
For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Eyes » Not satisfied with seeing
All things are full of weariness; man cannot express it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Eyes » Made red by wine
Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
Eyes » Illustrative » (open,) of spiritual illumination
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive me in your way.
Eyes » The jews » Wore their phylacteries between
But all their works they do to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
And it shall be for a sign upon your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
Eyes » Punishment for injuring
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
And if a man strikes the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Eyes » Grows dim by age
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was lying down in his place, and his eyes had begun to grow dim, that he could not see;
Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Directing
And he said, Leave us not, I pray you; forasmuch as you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye.
Eyes » God » Opens
And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray you, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:
Eyes » The jews » Raised up, in prayer
[A song of ascents.] I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from which comes my help.
[A song of ascents.] Unto you I lift up my eyes, O you that dwell in the heavens.
Eyes » A guard to be set on
Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
Eyes » The light of the body
The lamp of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is sound, your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light.
Eyes » Consumed by grief
My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my body.
Eyes » God » Enlightens
And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us security in his holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Seeing
The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The apple or ball
He found him in a desert land, and in the wasteland of the howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Eyes » The jews » Not to make baldness between
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.
Eyes » Not satisfied with riches
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.
Eyes » Illustrative » (anointing with eyesalve,) of healing by the spirit
I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white clothing, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
Eyes » Illustrative » Of the mind
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light. 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!
Eyes » Consumed by sickness
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Eyes » Sometimes blemished
Or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or that has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or is a eunuch;
Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Winking
He that winks with the eye causes trouble: but a prating fool shall fall.
Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The brow
But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
Eyes » God » Made
Eyes » The light of, rejoices the heart
Eyes » Frequently fair
And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and of a beautiful countenance, and handsome. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
Eyes » Sometimes tender
Eyes » Not evil thing to be set before
I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Eyes » The jews » Cast, on the ground in humiliation
And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Eyes » God » Formed
Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The lid
Eyes » Grows dim by sorrow
Topics on Eyes
Evil Eyes
Mark 7:21-23For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Eyes Cared For
Ezekiel 23:40And furthermore, that you have sent for men to come from afar, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom you did wash yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments,
Eyes Harmed
Zechariah 2:8For thus says the LORD of hosts; After his glory has he sent me unto the nations which plundered you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye.
Eyes In Prophecy
Revelation 1:14His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Eyes Opened
Genesis 3:5For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Eyes, Affected By
Genesis 27:1And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Eyes, Figurative Use
Numbers 24:3And he took up his oracle, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:
Eyes, Used In Prophecies
Job 19:25-27For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Eyes, Used Of God
Habakkuk 1:13You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: why do you look upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?
Good Eyes
Deuteronomy 34:7And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Jesus Eyes
Revelation 1:14His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Lust Of The Eyes
1 John 2:16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.