12 Bible Verses about Eyes, Figurative Use
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the eye is the light of the body: now if your eye be clear, your whole body will be enlightned.
why do you observe the mote that is in your brother's eye, and not consider the beam that is in your own eye? with what assurance can you say, brother, let me take that mote out of your eye; when there is such an apparent beam in your own eye? thou hypocrite, first get rid of the beam in your own eye; and then see how to remove the mote out of thy brother's eye.
for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."
said, why do you trouble your heads about your having no bread? are you yet so void of sense, and understanding? are your minds so blinded?
but, as it is written, "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entred into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."
an enlightned understanding, that ye may see what great expectations he has called you to, and what abundant glory it is to the saints to be the lot of his inheritance.
not doing your work meerly out of regard to their presence or their pleasure, but as the servants of Christ, in hearty obedience to the will of God:
for what the world is so full of, sensuality, avarice, and pride, is not deriv'd from the creator, but is the offspring of a vicious world.
their eyes are inflam'd with adultery, and unextinguishable vice: they insnare the souls of the inconstant. their minds are practis'd in the arts of avarice: an execrable race, who have deserted the right way,
the eye is the light of the body: now if your eye be clear, your whole body will be enlightned. 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?
said, why do you trouble your heads about your having no bread? are you yet so void of sense, and understanding? are your minds so blinded? have you eyes, and yet don't see? have you ears, and yet not hear? have you lost your memory too?
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