44 Bible Verses about Eyes

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Matthew 7:3

And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

Luke 11:34

The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.

Matthew 7:5

You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

Deuteronomy 19:21

Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Luke 6:42

How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.

Luke 6:41

And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

1 Corinthians 12:21

And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

Matthew 18:9

And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.

2 Kings 6:17

Then Elisha made a prayer to the Lord, saying, Lord, let his eyes be open so that he may see. And the Lord made the young man's eyes open; and he saw that all the mountain was full of horses and carriages of fire round Elisha.

Zechariah 2:8

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.

Isaiah 44:18

They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

1 Corinthians 15:52

In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

2 Corinthians 4:18

While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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Eyes » The jewish women often painted

Jeremiah 4:30

And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.

Ezekiel 23:40

And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.

2 Kings 9:30

And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.

Eyes » Often put out as a punishment

2 Kings 25:7

And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

1 Samuel 11:2

And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, I will make an agreement with you on this condition, that all your right eyes are put out; so that I may make it a cause of shame to all Israel.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Weeping

Psalm 88:9

My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

Job 16:20

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

Eyes » Not satisfied with seeing

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.

Eyes » Made red by wine

Genesis 49:12

His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

Proverbs 23:29

Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

Eyes » Illustrative » (open,) of spiritual illumination

Psalm 119:37

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

Eyes » The jews » Wore their phylacteries between

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

Exodus 13:16

And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt.

Eyes » Punishment for injuring

Exodus 21:26

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

Eyes » Grows dim by age

Genesis 27:1

Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.

1 Samuel 3:2

And at that time, when Eli was resting in his place, (now his eyes were becoming clouded so that he was not able to see,)

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Directing

Numbers 10:31

And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

Eyes » God » Opens

2 Kings 6:17

Then Elisha made a prayer to the Lord, saying, Lord, let his eyes be open so that he may see. And the Lord made the young man's eyes open; and he saw that all the mountain was full of horses and carriages of fire round Elisha.

Psalm 146:8

The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;

Eyes » The jews » Raised up, in prayer

Psalm 121:1

My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?

Psalm 123:1

To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

Eyes » A guard to be set on

Proverbs 23:31

Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

Eyes » The light of the body

Luke 11:34

The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.

Eyes » Consumed by grief

Psalm 6:7

My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

Eyes » God » Enlightens

Psalm 13:3

Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

Ezra 9:8

And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Seeing

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

Job 28:10

He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The apple or ball

Deuteronomy 32:10

He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

Eyes » The jews » Not to make baldness between

Eyes » Not satisfied with riches

Ecclesiastes 4:8

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

Eyes » Illustrative » (anointing with eyesalve,) of healing by the spirit

Eyes » Illustrative » Of the mind

Matthew 6:22-23

The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light. 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!

Eyes » Consumed by sickness

Leviticus 26:16

This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

Eyes » Sometimes blemished

Leviticus 21:20

Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged;

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Winking

Proverbs 10:10

He who makes signs with his eyes is a cause of trouble, but he who makes a man see his errors is a cause of peace.

Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The brow

Leviticus 14:9

And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.

Eyes » God » Made

Eyes » The light of, rejoices the heart

Eyes » Frequently fair

1 Samuel 16:12

So he sent and made him come in. Now he had red hair and beautiful eyes and pleasing looks. And the Lord said, Come, put the oil on him, for this is he.

Eyes » Sometimes tender

Eyes » Not evil thing to be set before

Eyes » The jews » Cast, on the ground in humiliation

Luke 18:13

The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Eyes » God » Formed

Psalm 94:9

Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The lid

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

Eyes » Grows dim by sorrow

Job 17:7

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

Topics on Eyes

Evil Eyes

Mark 7:21-23

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

Eyes Cared For

Ezekiel 23:40

And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.

Eyes Harmed

Zechariah 2:8

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.

Eyes Opened

Genesis 3:5

For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

Eyes, Affected By

Genesis 27:1

Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.

Eyes, Figurative Use

Numbers 24:3

And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open:

Eyes, Used In Prophecies

Job 19:25-27

But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

Good Eyes

Deuteronomy 34:7

And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.

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