Matthew 6:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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!

Thine

If

General references

Leviticus 13:29

Romans 1:22

Bible References

Thine

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my business? Are you jealous because I’m generous?’

Such people do not comprehend
and cannot understand,
for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see,
and their minds so they cannot understand.

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he’s going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

If

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the sanctuary, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by his oath.’

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

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who substitute darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who substitute bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”

“How can you claim, ‘We are wise;
the law of the Lord is with us’?
In fact, the lying pen of scribes
has produced falsehood.

So He said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that

Looking they may not see,
and hearing they may not understand.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

Because you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,

General references

“When a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,

Claiming to be wise, they became fools