Luke 11:34

World English Bible (2000)

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

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  • Matt 6:22-23 : 22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. 23 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!
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • Eph 1:17 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
  • Eph 6:5 : 5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
  • Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; 12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • Mark 4:12 : 12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"
  • Mark 7:22 : 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
  • Mark 8:18 : 18 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?
  • Acts 2:46 : 46 Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
  • Acts 13:11 : 11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
  • Rom 11:8-9 : 8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day." 9 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
  • 2 Kgs 6:15-20 : 15 When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?" 16 He answered, "Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." 17 Elisha prayed, and said, "Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see." Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha. 18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. 19 Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." He led them to Samaria. 20 It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, "Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
  • Ps 119:18 : 18 Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed."
  • Isa 29:10 : 10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
  • Isa 42:19 : 19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?
  • Isa 44:18 : 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

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

    22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

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  • Luke 11:35-36
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    35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

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  • Mark 9:47
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    47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

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    28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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  • Luke 8:16-17
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    16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

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    41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

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    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

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    3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

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    35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

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    30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

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    16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

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    34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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    35 The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

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    12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

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    13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

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    9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

  • John 9:41
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    41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

  • 1 Cor 12:16-17
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    16 If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.

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  • 2 Cor 4:4
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    4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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    5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

  • 2 Cor 4:6
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    6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  • John 3:19-20
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    19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

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    46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

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    45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

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    3 Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

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    14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

  • Eph 5:8
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    8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

  • 1 John 1:5
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    5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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    3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

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