44 Bible Verses about Eyes

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Matthew 6:22

The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eye is clear (simple) (focused) (single minded), your whole body will be full of [spiritual] light.

Matthew 7:3

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye? Do you not consider the beam in your own eye?

Luke 11:34

The lamp of your body is your eye. When your eye is clear your entire body is full of light. When it is evil your body is full of darkness.

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye. Then you can see to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

Deuteronomy 19:21

Have no pity on him: Take 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: 'Let me remove the speck in your eye when you do not notice the beam in your own eye?' You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye. Then you will 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? Yet you do not consider the beam in your own eye.

2 Chronicles 16:9

The eyes of Jehovah keep close watch over the entire world. He gives strength (shows His strength) to (in behalf of) those whose hearts are loyal to him. You have acted foolishly! Therefore from now on you will always be at war.

1 Corinthians 12:21

And 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 5:29

If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away! It is better to lose a part of your body then to have your whole body destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom.

Matthew 18:9

If your eye causes you stumbling, take it out and throw it away. It is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to be destroyed in ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna).

Proverbs 4:25

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Let you own eyes gaze (be fixed) straight in front of you.

2 Kings 6:17

Elisha prayed: O Jehovah, open his eyes that he may see. Jehovah answered his prayer. Elisha's servant looked up and saw the hillside covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Zechariah 2:8

Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: 'He sent me after glory! He sent me to the nations that plundered you. For he that touches you touches the pupil of his eye.'

Isaiah 44:18

They do not know or understand anything. Their eyes are plastered shut and cannot see. Their minds are closed and therefore they cannot understand.

1 Corinthians 15:52

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last reverberation of the trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

2 Corinthians 4:18

We do not look at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. For the things that are seen are temporal (for a season). But the things that are not seen are eternal.

From Thematic Bible


Eyes » The jewish women often painted

Jeremiah 4:30

You are going to be destroyed! What are you going to do? Why do you dress in scarlet (crimson) and put on gold jewelry? Why do you wear eye shadow? You are making yourself beautiful for nothing. Your lovers despise you. They want to kill you.

Ezekiel 23:40

Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent. They came and you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments for them.

2 Kings 9:30

Jehu went to Jezreel. Jezebel had news of what happened. 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

They put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, chained him with iron bands and took him to Babylon.

Judges 16:21

The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.

1 Samuel 11:2

Nahash answered: I will make a treaty with you on one condition. I will put out everyone's right eye and so bring disgrace on all Israel.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Weeping

Psalm 88:9

My eyes grow weak because of my suffering. All day long I call out to you, O Jehovah. I stretch out my hands to you in prayer.

Job 16:20

My friends are my scoffers. My eye weeps to God.

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep. My eye streams with water because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me. My children are desolate because the enemy is strong.

Eyes » Not satisfied with seeing

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome; man is not able to tell. 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. His teeth are whiter than milk.

Proverbs 23:29

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has discord? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Eyes » Illustrative » (open,) of spiritual illumination

Psalm 119:37

Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity, and revive me in your ways.

Eyes » The jews » Wore their phylacteries between

Matthew 23:5

They do everything to be seen by men. For example: they enlarge their scripture cases for their foreheads and lengthen the tassels on their garments.

Exodus 13:16

This festival will be like a mark on your hand and like a band on your forehead, because Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring us out of Egypt.

Eyes » Punishment for injuring

Exodus 21:26

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

Eyes » Grows dim by age

1 Samuel 3:2

Eli was lying down in his usual place. His eyes became dim and he could not see.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Directing

Numbers 10:31

Please do not leave us, Moses said. You know where we can camp in the desert. You can be our guide.

Eyes » God » Opens

2 Kings 6:17

Elisha prayed: O Jehovah, open his eyes that he may see. Jehovah answered his prayer. Elisha's servant looked up and saw the hillside covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Eyes » The jews » Raised up, in prayer

Psalm 121:1

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains from where my help comes.

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 on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

Eyes » The light of the body

Luke 11:34

The lamp of your body is your eye. When your eye is clear your entire body is full of light. When it is evil your body is full of darkness.

Matthew 6:22

The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eye is clear (simple) (focused) (single minded), your whole body will be full of [spiritual] light.

Eyes » Consumed by grief

Psalm 6:7

My eyes grow weak with sorrow. I am weak because of all my foes.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eyes, my life, and my body waste away with grief.

Eyes » God » Enlightens

Psalm 13:3

Look at me! Answer me, O Jehovah my God! Light up my eyes, or else I will die.

Ezra 9:8

Now for a little time grace (favour) has come to us from Jehovah our God, to let a small band of us go free and to give us a nail in his holy place. Our God gives light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Seeing

Job 7:8

You see me now but not for long. Your eyes will be on me but I will be dead.

Job 28:10

They cut out mineshafts in the rocks. Their eyes see every precious thing.

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

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found his people in a desert land, in a barren place where animals howl. He guarded them, took care of them, and protected them because they were the precious apple (pupil) of his eye.

Eyes » The jews » Not to make baldness between

Eyes » Not satisfied with riches

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a man who is by himself, without a companion. He is without son or brother. There is no end to all his work. He never has enough wealth. Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. He never asks: For whom do I labor and deprive myself of pleasure? This too is vanity and a terrible problem.

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

Eyes » Illustrative » Of the mind

Matthew 6:22-23

The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eye is clear (simple) (focused) (single minded), your whole body will be full of [spiritual] light. But if your eye is wicked, your body will be in darkness. If that light in you is really darkness, how great a darkness it must be.

Eyes » Consumed by sickness

Leviticus 26:16

then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.

Eyes » Sometimes blemished

Leviticus 21:20

who is a hunchback or dwarf, who has defective sight, skin diseases, or crushed testicles.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Winking

Proverbs 10:10

He who winks the eye [in a jesture of malice] causes trouble. A babbling fool will fall.

Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The brow

Leviticus 14:9

On the seventh day you should again shave your head, your beard, your eyebrows, and all the rest of the hair on your body. You should wash your clothes and take a bath. Then you will be ritually clean.

Eyes » God » Made

Eyes » The light of, rejoices the heart

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart: and a good report makes the bones healthy.

Eyes » Frequently fair

1 Samuel 16:12

Jesse sent for him. He was a handsome, healthy young man, and his eyes sparkled. Jehovah said to Samuel: This is the one. Anoint him!

Eyes » Sometimes tender

Eyes » Not evil thing to be set before

Psalm 101:3

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of unfaithful people. I want no part of it.

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

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.

Eyes » God » Formed

Psalm 94:9

God created ears. Do you think he cannot hear? He formed eyes. Do you think he cannot see?

Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The lid

Job 16:16

My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.

Eyes » Grows dim by sorrow

Topics on Eyes

Evil Eyes

Mark 7:21-23

It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

Eyes Cared For

Ezekiel 23:40

Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent. They came and you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments for them.

Eyes Harmed

Zechariah 2:8

Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: 'He sent me after glory! He sent me to the nations that plundered you. For he that touches you touches the pupil of his eye.'

Eyes, Figurative Use

Numbers 24:3

He uttered this prophecy: The message of Balaam son of Beor. These are the words of the man who can see clearly.

Eyes, Used In Prophecies

Job 19:25-27

I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth.

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