33 (A)No one lights a lamp and puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. 34 (B)Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is [a]clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is [b]bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35 So watch out that the light in you is not darkness. 36 Therefore if your whole body is full of light, without any dark part, it will be wholly illuminated, as when the lamp illuminates you with its light.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:34 Or healthy
  2. Luke 11:34 Or evil

Light and Darkness

33 “No one after[a] lighting a lamp puts it[b] in a cellar or under a bushel basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body is dark also. 35 Therefore pay careful attention that the light in you is not darkness! 36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, not having any part dark, it will be completely full of light, as when the lamp with its light gives light to you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:33 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“lighting”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Luke 11:33 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation