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

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

They did not know nor understand; for he has anointed their eyes that they not see and their hearts that they not understand.

the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

For in another time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

If

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Woe unto those that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

For my people are foolish; the ignorant sons with no understanding have not known me; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain did he make the pen; the scribes were in vain.

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the others in parables that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand.

And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see might see and that those who see might be blinded.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools

Behold, thou doth call thyself a Jew and art supported by the law and doth glory in God

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those that perish, but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God.

But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you seems to be wise in this age, let them become a fool that they may be wise.

Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

General references

If a man or woman has a plague upon the head or the beard,

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools