44 Bible Verses about Eyes

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Matthew 7:3

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Luke 11:34

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Deuteronomy 19:21

Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Luke 6:42

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

Luke 6:41

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars."

1 Corinthians 12:21

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."

Matthew 18:9

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.

2 Kings 6:17

Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Psalm 119:18

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:

Isaiah 44:18

They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.

1 Corinthians 15:52

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

2 Corinthians 4:18

as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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Eyes » The jewish women often painted

Jeremiah 4:30

And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.

Ezekiel 23:40

They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

2 Kings 9:30

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.

Eyes » Often put out as a punishment

2 Kings 25:7

They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.

Judges 16:21

And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.

1 Samuel 11:2

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel."

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Weeping

Psalm 88:9

my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Lamentations 1:16

"For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed."

Eyes » Not satisfied with seeing

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Eyes » Made red by wine

Genesis 49:12

His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

Proverbs 23:29

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Eyes » Illustrative » (open,) of spiritual illumination

Psalm 119:18

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.

Eyes » The jews » Wore their phylacteries between

Exodus 13:16

It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt."

Eyes » Punishment for injuring

Exodus 21:26

"When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.

Eyes » Grows dim by age

Genesis 27:1

When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."

1 Samuel 3:2

At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Directing

Numbers 10:31

And he said, "Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.

Eyes » God » Opens

2 Kings 6:17

Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Eyes » The jews » Raised up, in prayer

Psalm 121:1

I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

Psalm 123:1

To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!

Eyes » A guard to be set on

Proverbs 23:31

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

Eyes » The light of the body

Luke 11:34

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.

Eyes » Consumed by grief

Psalm 6:7

My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.

Eyes » God » Enlightens

Psalm 13:3

Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Ezra 9:8

But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Seeing

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.

Job 28:10

He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

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

Deuteronomy 32:10

"He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Eyes » The jews » Not to make baldness between

Eyes » Not satisfied with riches

Ecclesiastes 4:8

one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

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

Eyes » Illustrative » Of the mind

Matthew 6:22-23

"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 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 the darkness!

Eyes » Consumed by sickness

Leviticus 26:16

then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Eyes » Sometimes blemished

Leviticus 21:20

or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Winking

Proverbs 10:10

Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The brow

Leviticus 14:9

And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

Eyes » God » Made

Eyes » The light of, rejoices the heart

Eyes » Frequently fair

1 Samuel 16:12

And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he."

Eyes » Sometimes tender

Eyes » Not evil thing to be set before

Psalm 101:3

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

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

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

Eyes » God » Formed

Psalm 94:9

He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The lid

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,

Eyes » Grows dim by sorrow

Topics on Eyes

Evil Eyes

Mark 7:21-23

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Eyes Cared For

Ezekiel 23:40

They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

Eyes Harmed

Zechariah 2:8

For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:

Eyes, Affected By

Genesis 27:1

When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."

Eyes, Figurative Use

Numbers 24:3

and he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

Eyes, Guarded

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.

Eyes, Used In Prophecies

Job 19:25-27

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

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