Matthew 6:22 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 6:22

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

KJV

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WEB

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.

YLT

`The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened,

DBT

The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body will be light:

ASV

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

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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16 verses on the floor

Luke 11:34–36
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Isaiah 5:20
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!
Proverbs 4:25
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Matthew 6:23
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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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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The light--rather, "the lamp." of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single--simple, clear. As applied to the outward eye, this means general soundness; particularly, not looking two ways. Here, as also in classical Greek, it is used figuratively to denote the simplicity of the mind's eye, singleness of purpose, looking right at its object, as opposed to having two ends in view.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

MAT 6:222CO 11:3 COL 2:8
MAT 6:222CO 11:3 GAL 1:6
MAT 6:222CO 11:3 EPH 4:14
MAT 6:22EPH 6:5 TIT 2:9-10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAT 6:22ACT 2:46 PSA 86:11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAT 6:222CO 11:3 1JN 4:1
MAT 6:222CO 11:3 COL 2:4
MAT 6:22EPH 6:5 1PE 2:18-21

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