Christian Standard Bible
Luke 11:34
34Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness.
Luke 11:34 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
- New International Version (NIV)Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
Context of Luke 11:34
32The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s preaching, and look — something greater than Jonah is here. 33“No one lights a lamp and puts it in the cellar or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see its light. Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness. 35Take care, then, that the light in you is not darkness. 36If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”
Read all of Luke 11Luke 11:34 word by word
Ὁ λύχνος τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου. ὅταν ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου ἁπλοῦς ᾖ, καὶ ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου φωτεινόν ἐστιν· ἐπὰν δὲ πονηρὸς ᾖ, καὶ τὸ σῶμά σου σκοτεινόν.Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- The lightὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- The lightλύχνοςluchnos · lampG3088
- of the bodyσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983
- isεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
- the eyeὀφθαλμόςophthalmos · eyeG3788
- thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
- whenὅτανhotan · when(-ever)G3752
- thineσύsu · youG4771
- singleἁπλοῦςhaplous · soundG573
- wholeὅλοςholos · allG3650
- alsoκαίkai · andG2532
- full of lightφωτεινόςphōteinos · brightG5460
- butδέde · thenG1161
- whenἐπάνepan · when/as soon asG1875
- evilπονηρόςponēros · evil/badG4190
- full of darknessσκοτεινόςskoteinos · darkG4652
Cross-references for Luke 11:34
- Psalms 119:18Open my eyes so that I may contemplate wondrous things from your instruction.
- Matthew 6:22“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
- Mark 8:18Do you have eyes and not see; do you have ears and not hear? And do you not remember?
- Acts 26:18to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
- Ephesians 1:17I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.
- Acts 2:46Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts,
- 2 Corinthians 1:12Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.
- 2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
- Ephesians 6:5Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as you would Christ.
- Colossians 3:22Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.
- Genesis 19:11They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with blindness so that they were unable to find the entrance.
- 2 Kings 6:15When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
- Psalms 81:12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans.
- Proverbs 28:22A greedy one is in a hurry for wealth; he doesn’t know that poverty will come to him.
- Isaiah 6:10Make the minds of these people dull; deafen their ears and blind their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their minds, turn back, and be healed.
- Isaiah 29:10For the Lord has poured out on you an overwhelming urge to sleep; he has shut your eyes (the prophets) and covered your heads (the seers).
Commentaries on Luke 11:34
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 34The light of the body is the eye - Or, the eye is the lamp of the body. See on Matthew 6:22; (note), etc. The 35th and 36th verses are wanting in some MSS., and are variously read in others.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 33-36Verses 33-36 These verses are found in Matthew, but in a different connection. See the notes at Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 29-36Verses 29-36 Christ promised that there should be one sign more given, even the sign of Jonah the prophet; which in Matthew is explained, as meaning the resurrection of Christ; and he warned them to improve this sign. But though Christ himself were the constant preacher in any congregation, and worked miracles daily among them, yet unless his grace humbled their hearts, they would not profit by his word. Let us not desire more evidence and fuller teaching…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33-3633-36. (See on Mt 5:14-16; Mt 6:22, 23.) But Lu 11:36 here is peculiarly vivid, expressing what pure, beautiful, broad perceptions the clarity of the inward eye imparts.Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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