Matthew 6:22
Good News Translation
"The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eyes are sound, your whole body will be full of light;

New Revised Standard Version
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light;

Contemporary English Version
Your eyes are a window for your body. When they are good, you have all the light you need.

New American Bible
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome.

light of.

Luke 11:34-36 The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body will be lightsome: but if it be evil, thy body also will be darksome. . . .

single.

Acts 2:46 And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart:

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ.

Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: not serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

Context
The Lamp of the Body
21For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also. 22The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome. 23But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great shall it be!…
Cross References
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to you 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.

Matthew 5:15
Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.

Luke 11:34
The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body will be lightsome: but if it be evil, thy body also will be darksome.

Luke 11:35
Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

Matthew 6:21
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