Matthew 6:23

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Events

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• Sermon on the Mountc. AD 28

Related verses

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• 1 John 2:11
  But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
• Matthew 6:22
  The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
• Isaiah 5:20–21
  Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
• Proverbs 26:12
  Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Jeremiah 4:22
  “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
• 1 Corinthians 3:18–19
  Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
• 1 Corinthians 1:18–20
  For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
• Isaiah 44:18–20
  They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
• Romans 2:17–23
  Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
• Ephesians 4:18
  They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
• 1 Corinthians 2:14
  The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Luke 8:10
  He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’

Parallels

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Luke 11:33–36

Glossary

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Biblical Concept of Law· Darkness· Gospel of Matthew· Heal, Healing· Jesus Christ· Lamp, Lampstand· Light· Moses· Reward· Sin

Topics

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Blindness: Spiritual· Commandments: Precepts of Jesus--Explicitly Stated, or Implied in Didactic Discourse· Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning· Darkness of Spiritual Blindness· Darkness: The Wicked are Full of· Little Eyes· Media· Movies· Religion: True· Spiritual Blindness: The Effect of Sin· The Eye of the Mind· Wicked (People): Described· Wisdom: Spiritual: Unclassified Scriptures Relating to· Wisdom: Worldly