Matthew 6:23 Cross References

Matthew 6:23

23: But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. If the light you think you have is really darkness, how deep that darkness will be!

1 John 2:11

  1. Anyone who hates a Christian brother or sister is living and walking in darkness. Such a person is lost, having been blinded by the darkness.

Jeremiah 4:22

  1. "My people are foolish and do not know me," says the LORD. "They are senseless children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no talent at all for doing right!"

1 Corinthians 1:18

  1. I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God.
  2. As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas."
  3. So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense.

Matthew 6:22

  1. "Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul.

Romans 2:17

  1. If you are a Jew, you are relying on God's law for your special relationship with him. You boast that all is well between yourself and God.
  2. Yes, you know what he wants; you know right from wrong because you have been taught his law.
  3. You are convinced that you are a guide for the blind and a beacon light for people who are lost in darkness without God.
  4. You think you can instruct the ignorant and teach children the ways of God. For you are certain that in God's law you have complete knowledge and truth.
  5. Well then, if you teach others, why don't you teach yourself? You tell others not to steal, but do you steal?

Isaiah 44:18

  1. Such stupidity and ignorance! Their eyes are closed, and they cannot see. Their minds are shut, and they cannot think.
  2. The person who made the idol never stops to reflect, "Why, it's just a block of wood! I burned half of it for heat and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat. How can the rest of it be a god? Should I bow down to worship a chunk of wood?"
  3. The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"

Proverbs 26:12

  1. There is more hope for fools than for people who think they are wise.

Ephesians 4:18

  1. Their closed minds are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and hardened their hearts against him.

1 Corinthians 2:14

  1. But people who aren't Christians can't understand these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them because only those who have the Spirit can understand what the Spirit means.

Isaiah 5:20

  1. Destruction is certain for those who say that evil is good and good is evil; that dark is light and light is dark; that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
  2. Destruction is certain for those who think they are wise and consider themselves to be clever.

1 Corinthians 3:18

  1. Stop fooling yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world's standards, you will have to become a fool so you can become wise by God's standards.
  2. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, "God catches those who think they are wise in their own cleverness."

Isaiah 8:20

  1. "Check their predictions against my testimony," says the LORD. "If their predictions are different from mine, it is because there is no light or truth in them.

Luke 8:10

  1. He replied, "You have been permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of God. But I am using these stories to conceal everything about it from outsiders, so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: 'They see what I do, but they don't really see; they hear what I say, but they don't understand.'

Romans 1:22

  1. Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.

Ephesians 5:8

  1. For though your hearts were once full of darkness, now you are full of light from the Lord, and your behavior should show it!

Revelation 3:17

  1. You say, 'I am rich. I have everything I want. I don't need a thing!' And you don't realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
  2. I advise you to buy gold from me--gold that has been purified by fire. Then you will be rich. And also buy white garments so you will not be shamed by your nakedness. And buy ointment for your eyes so you will be able to see.

Jeremiah 8:8

  1. " `How can you say, "We are wise because we have the law of the LORD," when your teachers have twisted it so badly?
  2. These wise teachers will be shamed by exile for their sin, for they have rejected the word of the LORD. Are they so wise after all?

John 9:39

  1. Then Jesus told him, "I have come to judge the world. I have come to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind."
  2. The Pharisees who were standing there heard him and asked, "Are you saying we are blind?"
  3. "If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty," Jesus replied. "But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.

Matthew 20:15

  1. Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be angry because I am kind?'

Matthew 23:16

  1. "Blind guides! How terrible it will be for you! For you say that it means nothing to swear 'by God's Temple'--you can break that oath. But then you say that it is binding to swear 'by the gold in the Temple.'
  2. Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold sacred?
  3. And you say that to take an oath 'by the altar' can be broken, but to swear 'by the gifts on the altar' is binding!
  4. How blind! For which is greater, the gift on the altar, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
  5. When you swear 'by the altar,' you are swearing by it and by everything on it.

Mark 7:22

  1. adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, eagerness for lustful pleasure, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
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