"But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
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Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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!
but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
But if thy eye be evil, thy whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that `is' in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!