44 Bible Verses about Eyes

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Matthew 7:3

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

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 diseased, your body is full of darkness.

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Deuteronomy 19:21

You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

Luke 6:42

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,' while you yourself don't see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Luke 6:41

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

2 Chronicles 16:9

Certainly the Lord watches the whole earth carefully and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.

1 Corinthians 12:21

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you," nor in turn can the head say to the foot, "I do not need 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 into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.

Proverbs 4:25

Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

2 Kings 6:17

Then Elisha prayed, "O Lord, open his eyes so he can see." The Lord opened the servant's eyes and he saw that the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Zechariah 2:8

For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you -- for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

Isaiah 44:18

They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

1 Corinthians 15:52

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

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Eyes » The jewish women often painted

Jeremiah 4:30

And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction, you accomplish nothing by wearing a beautiful dress, decking yourself out in jewels of gold, and putting on eye shadow! You are making yourself beautiful for nothing. Your lovers spurn you. They want to kill you.

Ezekiel 23:40

"They even sent for men from far away; when the messenger arrived, those men set out. For them you bathed, painted your eyes, and decorated yourself with jewelry.

2 Kings 9:30

Jehu approached Jezreel. When Jezebel heard the news, she put on some eye liner, fixed up her hair, and leaned out the window.

Eyes » Often put out as a punishment

2 Kings 25:7

Zedekiah's sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. The king of Babylon then had Zedekiah's eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.

Judges 16:21

The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

1 Samuel 11:2

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!"

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Weeping

Psalm 88:9

My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O Lord, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you.

Job 16:20

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

Lamentations 1:16

(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.

Eyes » Not satisfied with seeing

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All this monotony is tiresome; no one can bear to describe it: The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear ever content with hearing.

Proverbs 27:20

As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.

Eyes » Made red by wine

Genesis 49:12

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

Proverbs 23:29

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes?

Eyes » Illustrative » (open,) of spiritual illumination

Eyes » The jews » Wore their phylacteries between

Exodus 13:16

It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt."

Eyes » Punishment for injuring

Exodus 21:26

"If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

Eyes » Grows dim by age

Genesis 27:1

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son!" "Here I am!" Esau replied.

1 Samuel 3:2

Eli's eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Directing

Numbers 10:31

Moses said, "Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.

Eyes » God » Opens

2 Kings 6:17

Then Elisha prayed, "O Lord, open his eyes so he can see." The Lord opened the servant's eyes and he saw that the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Eyes » The jews » Raised up, in prayer

Psalm 121:1

A song of ascents. I look up toward the hills. From where does my help come?

Psalm 123:1

A song of ascents. I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven.

Eyes » A guard to be set on

Proverbs 23:31

Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it 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 diseased, your body is full of darkness.

Eyes » Consumed by grief

Psalm 6:7

My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

Eyes » God » Enlightens

Ezra 9:8

"But now briefly we have received mercy from the Lord our God, in that he has left us a remnant and has given us a secure position in his holy place. Thus our God has enlightened our eyes and has given us a little relief in our time of servitude.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Seeing

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

Job 28:10

He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

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

Deuteronomy 32:10

The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

Eyes » The jews » Not to make baldness between

Eyes » Not satisfied with riches

Ecclesiastes 4:8

A man who is all alone with no companion, he has no children nor siblings; yet there is no end to all his toil, and he is never satisfied with riches. He laments, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is futile and a burdensome task!

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. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 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!

Eyes » Consumed by sickness

Leviticus 26:16

I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

Eyes » Sometimes blemished

Leviticus 21:20

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, or a crushed testicle.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Winking

Proverbs 10:10

The one who winks his eye causes trouble, and the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The brow

Leviticus 14:9

When the seventh day comes he must shave all his hair -- his head, his beard, his eyebrows, all his hair -- and he must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and so be clean.

Eyes » God » Made

Eyes » The light of, rejoices the heart

Eyes » Frequently fair

1 Samuel 16:12

So Jesse had him brought in. Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, "Go and anoint him. This is the one!"

Eyes » Sometimes tender

Eyes » Not evil thing to be set before

Psalm 101:3

I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. I hate doing evil; I will have no part of it.

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

Luke 18:13

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'

Eyes » God » Formed

Psalm 94:9

Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?

Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The lid

Job 16:16

my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

Eyes » Grows dim by sorrow

Topics on Eyes

Evil Eyes

Mark 7:21-23

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

Eyes Cared For

Ezekiel 23:40

"They even sent for men from far away; when the messenger arrived, those men set out. For them you bathed, painted your eyes, and decorated yourself with jewelry.

Eyes Harmed

Zechariah 2:8

For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you -- for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

Eyes, Affected By

Genesis 27:1

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son!" "Here I am!" Esau replied.

Eyes, Figurative Use

Numbers 24:3

Then he uttered this oracle: "The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;

Eyes, Used In Prophecies

Job 19:25-27

As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.

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