Matthew 6:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! ”

Matthew 6:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The light of the body ... - The sentiment stated in the preceding verses - the duty of fixing the affections on heavenly things - Jesus proceeds to illustrate by a reference to the “eye.” When th...
Matthew 6:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

True Righteousness in Relation to Wealth. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels to this section in Lk. Matthew 6:19-21 . Treas...
Matthew 6:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

If. Assuming it as. fact. be . is.
Matthew 6:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23. If the light which is in thee be darkness Light signifies that small portion of reason, which continues to exist in men since the fall of Adam: and darkness signifies gross and brutal...
Matthew 6:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1322 THE SINGLE EYE Matthew 6:22-23 . The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole bo...
Matthew 6:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 6:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The light of the body is the eye—single—evil— The eye is the lamp of the body;—clear or pure;—bad or vitiated. Heylin. Mr. Locke has observed, that the modes of thinking, as he speaks, that...
Matthew 6:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! But if thine eye be evil, х poneeros (...
Matthew 6:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sermon on the Mount (continued) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to loo...
Matthew 6:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If thine eye be evil. — If the spiritual faculty, whose proper work it is to give light, be itself diseased — if it discerns not singly but doubly, and therefore dimly — then the whole life also is...
Matthew 6:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Matthew 6:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

What to Seek and Whom to Serve Matthew 6:19-26 What is in our inner life which answers to the eye of the body? Some have said that it is the intellect; others the heart. But it is truer to say...
Matthew 6:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a stateme...
Matthew 6:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. These directions of our LOR...
Matthew 6:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But if thine eye be evil ,.... If thou art of a sordid disposition, of an avaricious temper, if the sin of covetousness prevails over thee, thy whole body will be full of darkness : thy judgment w...
Matthew 6:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Ver. 23. But if thine eye be evil, &c. If...
Matthew 6:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to imp...
Matthew 6:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves bre...
Matthew 6:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 22,23. You had need look to your hearts, your understanding, judgment, and affections; for look what proportion there is betwixt your bodily eye and the rest of the bodily members, with regard t...
Matthew 6:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

They Must Lay Up Their Treasure In Heaven As They Cannot Serve God and Mammon (6:19-24). Having dealt with the question of what His disciples' attitude is to be towards ‘religious' activity, namel...
Matthew 6:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 6:19-20 . Lay not up … lay up . An instance of “the idiom of exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negative half of this precept would discourage thrift,...
Matthew 6:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 6:22-24 The illustration of the text has a twofold reference. It bears on what went before, and also on what follows. If we lay up treasures on earth, that will produce an evil eye; if we...
Matthew 6:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. The motive which leads a man to give, will form the...
Matthew 6:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men. It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righte...
Matthew 6:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 6:1-40 The relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day ( continued ); vide Matthew 5:17 , note. ( b ) Our Lord turns from cases which could b...
Matthew 6:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The parable of the eye:
Matthew 6:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:18-20 ; 1 Corinthians 2:14 ; 1 Corinthians 3:18 ; 1 Corinthians 3:19 ; 1 John 2:11 ; Ephesians 4:18 ; Ephesians 5:8 ; Isaiah 44:18-20 ; Isaiah 5:20 ; Isaiah 5:21 ; Isaiah 8...

Matthew 6:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 6:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 6:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 6:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 6:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 6:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 6:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 6:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 6:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 6:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 6:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 6:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 6:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 6:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 6:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge