Parallel Verses
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!
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!
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
Interlinear
De
O
ἐστί
Esti
Usage: 585
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 6:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Light Of The Body
22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is unclouded, your whole body will be lit up; 23 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! 24 No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Cross References
Matthew 6:22
The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is unclouded, your whole body will be lit up;
Matthew 20:15
Have not I the right to do as I choose with what is mine? Are you envious because I am liberal?'
Matthew 23:16-28
Alas for you, you blind guides! You say 'if any answer by the Temple, his oath counts for nothing; but, if any one swears by the gold of the Temple, his oath is binding him'!
Luke 8:10
"To you," he said, "the knowledge of the hidden truths of the Kingdom of God has been imparted, but to others in parables only, that 'though they have eyes they may not see, and though they have ears, they may not understand.'
John 9:39-41
And Jesus added: "It was to put men to the test that I came into this world, in order that those that cannot see should see, and that those that can see should become blind."
Romans 1:22
Professing to be wise, they showed themselves fools;
Romans 2:17-23
But, perhaps, you bear the name of 'Jew,' and are relying upon Law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will,
1 Corinthians 1:18-20
The Message of the Cross is indeed mere folly to those who are in the path to Ruin, but to us who are in the path of Salvation it is the very power of God.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, he is a wise man, let him become a 'fool,' that he may become wise.
Ephesians 4:18
With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.
Ephesians 5:8
For, although you were once in Darkness, now, by your union with the Lord, you are in the Light. Live as 'Children of Light'- -
1 John 2:11
while he who hates his Brother is in the Darkness, and is living in the Darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the Darkness prevents his seeing.
Revelation 3:17-18
You say 'I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,' and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked!
Mark 7:22
Greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, haughtiness, folly;
1 Corinthians 2:14
The merely intellectual man rejects the teaching of the Spirit of God; for to him it is mere folly; he cannot grasp it, because it is to be understood only by spiritual insight.