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What does the Bible say about little eyes what you see?

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The Bible teaches that what we willingly look at shapes our hearts, thoughts, and desires, so believers should guard their eyes and seek what is pure and pleasing to God. Jesus says the eye affects the whole person and warns seriously against sinful looking in Matthew 6:22-23 and Matthew 5:28-29. Job 31:1 models a covenant with his eyes, while Psalms 101:3 refuses worthless things. Philippians 4:8 directs the mind toward what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and commendable. Because the world’s desires are passing away, 1 John 2:15-17 calls Christians to love the Father above them. By God’s grace, we watch carefully, repent when we fail, and look to Christ for renewed hearts.

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  • Matthew 6:22-23

    [22] "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. [23] But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • Philippians 4:8

    Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

  • 1 John 2:15-17

    [15] Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. [16] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. [17] The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

  • Matthew 5:29

    If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

  • Job 31:1

    "I made a covenant with my eyes, How then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

  • Psalms 101:2-4

    [2] I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. [3] I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. [4] A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

  • Matthew 5:28

    but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  • Proverbs 20:12

    The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

  • Psalms 101:3

    I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

  • Proverbs 4:23

    Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.

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