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Berean Standard Bible

“But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”

Matthew 6:23

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Jesus speaks about treasure and where the heart lies, then turns to a saying about the eye as the lamp of the body.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

World English Bible (WEB)

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!

King James Version (KJV)

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!

American Standard Version (ASV)

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 the darkness!

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

but if your eye may be evil, all your body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in you is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

Mas si tu ojo fuere malo, todo tu cuerpo será tenebroso. Así que, si la lumbre que en ti hay son tinieblas, ¿cuántas serán las mismas tinieblas?

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

pero si tu ojo es maligno, estarás sumido en la oscuridad. Y si tu luz no es más que oscuridad, tu oscuridad ¡qué negra debe ser!

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