44 Bible Verses about Eyes
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"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
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?
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.
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.
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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.
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!
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?
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."
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."
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
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.
Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
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.
For all that is in the world--the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions--is not from the Father but is from the world.
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:
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.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit.
Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
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.
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"
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.
From Thematic Bible
Eyes » The jewish women often painted
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.
"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
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
Eyes » Made red by wine
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
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.
Eyes » The jews » Wore their phylacteries between
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
"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
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."
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
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.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Eyes » God » Opens
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.
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.
Eyes » The jews » Raised up, in prayer
Eyes » A guard to be set on
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
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.
"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
Eyes » Consumed by grief
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
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
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
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The apple or ball
"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
"You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
Eyes » Not satisfied with riches
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
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
Eyes » Illustrative » Of the mind
"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
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
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
Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The brow
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
The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.
Eyes » Frequently fair
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
Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.
Eyes » Not evil thing to be set before
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
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
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
Eyes » Grows dim by sorrow
Topics on Eyes
Evil Eyes
Mark 7:21-23For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
Eyes Cared For
Ezekiel 23:40They 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 2:8For 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 In Prophecy
Revelation 1:14The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
Eyes Opened
Genesis 3:5For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Eyes, Affected By
Genesis 27:1When 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 24:3and 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 119:37Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.
Eyes, Used In Prophecies
Job 19:25-27For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
Eyes, Used Of God
Habakkuk 1:13You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
Good Eyes
Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.
Jesus Eyes
Revelation 1:14The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
Lust Of The Eyes
1 John 2:16For all that is in the world--the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions--is not from the Father but is from the world.
