Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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!
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light within you has turned into darkness, how great is that darkness!"
A Conservative Version
But if thine eye is bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is the darkness!
American Standard Version
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 the darkness!
Amplified
An Understandable Version
But if your eye sees things wrongly, [then] your whole body [i.e., your entire life] will be full of darkness [i.e., will not be lived properly]. If therefore, the light you have is [really] darkness [i.e., if you are not seeing life properly], that darkness will be very great [i.e., you cannot possibly live properly].
Anderson New Testament
But if your eye be diseased, your whole body will be dark. If therefore, the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Bible in Basic English
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
Common New Testament
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Daniel Mace New Testament
but if your eye be bad, your whole body will be dark: if therefore that, which should be light to you, be dark; how great is that darkness?
Darby Translation
but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!
Godbey New Testament
If thine eye may be bad, thy whole body will be dark. Then if the light which is in you is darkness, the darkness is so great.
Goodspeed New Testament
but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, your very light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be!
John Wesley New Testament
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?
Julia Smith Translation
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness
King James 2000
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!
Lexham Expanded Bible
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!
Modern King James verseion
But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But and if thine eye be wicked, then all thy body shall be full of darkness. Wherefore if the light that is in thee, be darkness: how great is that darkness?
Moffatt New Testament
but if your Eye is selfish, the whole of your body will be darkened. And if your very light turns dark, then ??what a darkness it is!
Montgomery New Testament
"but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!
NET Bible
But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
New Heart English Bible
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
Noyes New Testament
but if thine eye be disordered, thy whole body will be in darkness. If then the light that is within thee is darkness, how great that darkness!
Sawyer New Testament
but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
The Emphasized Bible
But, if thine eye be, evil, thy whole body, shall be, in the dark; - if therefore, the light which is in thee, is, darkness, the darkness, how great!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But if thine eye be vitiated, thy whole body will be darkened. If therefore the light which is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!
Webster
But if thy eye be evil, thy whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Weymouth New Testament
but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If however the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be!
Williams New Testament
But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!
World English Bible
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Worrell New Testament
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!
Worsley New Testament
but if thine eye be bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Youngs Literal Translation
but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!
Themes
Blindness » Example of spiritual
spiritual Blindness » The effect of sin
Darkness » The wicked » Being Full of
Eyes » Illustrative » Of the mind
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 6:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Light Of The Body
22
The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eye is clear (simple) (focused) (single minded), your whole body will be full of [spiritual] light.
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Cross References
Proverbs 26:12
See a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Isaiah 5:20-21
You are doomed! You call evil good and you call good evil. You turn darkness into light and light into darkness. You make what is bitter, sweet, and what is sweet you make bitter.
Isaiah 8:20
They should go to the teachings and to the written instructions. If people do not speak these words, it is because there is no light (truth) in them.
Isaiah 44:18-20
They do not know or understand anything. Their eyes are plastered shut and cannot see. Their minds are closed and therefore they cannot understand.
Jeremiah 4:22
My people are fools. They do not know me. They are stupid people. They do not understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they do not know how to do good.
Jeremiah 8:8-9
How can you say you are wise and that you have Jehovah's Laws? The scribes have used their pens to spread falsehoods.
Matthew 6:22
The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eye is clear (simple) (focused) (single minded), your whole body will be full of [spiritual] light.
Matthew 20:15
Is it lawful for me to do what I wish with what is mine? Or is your eye jealous because I am generous?'
Matthew 23:16-28
Woe to you, you blind guides! You say, 'When you swear by the temple, it is nothing.' Then you say, 'When you swear by the gold of the temple, you are obligated.'
Luke 8:10
He said: You are meant to know the secrets of the kingdom of God. I speak to the rest in illustrations, that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand.
John 9:39-41
Jesus said: I came into the world for this judgment that those not seeing may see and those seeing may become blind.
Romans 1:22
Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
Romans 2:17-23
If you are a Jew in name and are resting on the law and taking glory in God,
1 Corinthians 1:18-20
For the preaching of the stake is foolishness to those who perish. It is the power of God to us who are saved.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.
Ephesians 5:8
You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk (live) (be occupied) as children of light
1 John 2:11
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he goes because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Revelation 3:17-18
You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
Mark 7:22
coveting, wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him! He cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.