Matthew 6:22

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

Latin

Lucerna corporis tui est oculus tuus. Si oculus tuus fuerit simplex, totum corpus tuum lucidum erit.

Greek

English

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

The eye is the lamp: The eye gives light to the body and helps guide the whole person.

A "good" eye means a morally healthy outlook. It points to simple and wholehearted devotion to God (6:24). Here, it also means being generous.

Theme notes and profiles

Luke 11:34–36
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.
2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
Colossians 3:22
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.