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 my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?

They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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 you were once darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.

If

Woe unto you, you 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 bound!

See a man wise in his own eyes? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Woe unto them 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 speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have no knowledge.

How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly he made it falsely; the pen of the scribes made it a lie.

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

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they who see not might see; and that they who see might be made blind.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

General references

If a man or woman has a disease upon the head or the beard;

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,