Devine Scripture

Matthew 6:22

Matthew chapter 6 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Context

v.21for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.

v.22This passage

v.23But 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 the darkness!

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:3

    But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

  • Colossians 3:22

    Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

  • Luke 11:34

    The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.