What does the Bible say about the eye?
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The Bible teaches that the eye is both a physical gift and a picture of the heart's spiritual focus: what we cherish and pursue shapes the whole person. In Matthew 6:22-23 and Luke 11:34, Jesus says a healthy eye fills the body with light, while an evil eye brings darkness, warning us against greed, envy, and divided devotion. Proverbs 7:2 urges God's people to guard His instruction as carefully as the pupil of the eye. Believers are therefore called to fix their minds on Christ and His truth, asking God to give them clear, obedient sight and to keep them from desires that darken the soul.
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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!
- Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
- Luke 11:34
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
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