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20 abut lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.  
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The Lamp of the Body

22 a“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is1 good, your whole body will be full of light.  
23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!  

You Cannot Serve God and Riches

24 a“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. bYou cannot serve God and mammon.  

Do Not Worry

25 “Therefore I say to you, ado not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Matthew 6:22

The light—the lamp.

of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single—simple, clear. As applied to the outward eye, this means general soundness; particularly, not looking two ways. Here, as also in classical Greek, it is used figuratively to denote the simplicity of the mind's eye, singleness of purpose, looking right at its object, as opposed to having two ends in view. (See Proverbs 4:25-27).

thy whole body shall be full of light—illuminated. As with the bodily vision, the man who looks with a good, sound eye, walks in light, seeing every object clear; so a simple and persistent purpose to serve and please God in everything will make the whole character consistent and bright.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Matthew 6:22:

Song of Solomon 4:1
Luke 11:33-36
Romans 1:18
Ephesians 1:18
Ephesians 6:5
James 1:5
James 1:8

 

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