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Matthew 6:23

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6:23But if your eye is diseased,29 your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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  1. 29 Or “if your eye is sick” (L&N 23.149). There may be a slight wordplay here, as this term can also mean “evil,” so the figure uses a term that points to the real meaning of being careful as to what one pays attention to or looks at.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!

NLTNew Living Translation

But when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

KJV 1900King James Version

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!