Matthew 6:23
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23 (A)but if (B)your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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Matthew 6:22
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22 (A)“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
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1 John 2:11
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11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and (A)walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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1 Corinthians 3:18-19
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18 (A)Let no one deceive himself. (B)If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19 For (C)the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, (D)“He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
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Isaiah 5:20-21
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20 Woe to (A)those who call evil good
and good evil,
(B)who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are (C)wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
Proverbs 26:12
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1 Corinthians 1:18-20
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Christ the Wisdom and Power of God
18 For the word of the cross is (A)folly to (B)those who are perishing, but to us (C)who are being saved it is (D)the power of God. 19 For it is written,
(E)“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 (F)Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? (G)Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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Jeremiah 4:22
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22 “For (A)my people are foolish;
they know me not;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
(B)They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
But how to do good they know not.”
Romans 2:17-23
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17 But if you call yourself a Jew and (A)rely on the law and boast in God 18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19 and if you are sure that you yourself are (B)a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law (C)the embodiment of (D)knowledge and truth— 21 (E)you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you (F)rob temples? 23 You who (G)boast in the law (H)dishonor God by breaking the law.
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Isaiah 44:18-20
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18 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. 19 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an (A)abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” 20 (B)He feeds on (C)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (D)a lie in my right hand?”
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Ephesians 4:18
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18 They (A)are darkened in their understanding, (B)alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to (C)their hardness of heart.
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1 Corinthians 2:14
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14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are (A)folly to him, and (B)he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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Romans 1:22
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22 (A)Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
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Ephesians 5:8
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8 for (A)at one time you were (B)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. (C)Walk as children of light
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Luke 8:10
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10 he said, (A)“To you it has been given to know (B)the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so (C)that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
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Isaiah 8:20
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20 (A)To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no (B)dawn.
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Revelation 3:17-18
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17 (A)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, (B)blind, and naked. 18 I counsel you (C)to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and (D)white garments so that you may clothe yourself and (E)the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, (F)so that you may see.
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John 9:39-41
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39 Jesus said, (A)“For judgment I came into this world, (B)that those who do not see may see, and (C)those who see may become blind.” 40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, (D)“Are we also blind?” 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, (E)you would have no guilt;[a] but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
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- John 9:41 Greek you would not have sin
Matthew 23:16-28
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16 “Woe to (A)you, (B)blind guides, who say, (C)‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ 17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or (D)the temple that has made the gold sacred? 18 And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by (E)the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ 19 You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or (F)the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by (G)him who dwells in it. 22 And whoever swears by (H)heaven swears by (I)the throne of God and by (J)him who sits upon it.
23 (K)“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For (L)you tithe mint and dill and (M)cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: (N)justice and mercy and faithfulness. (O)These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing (P)a camel!
25 (Q)“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For (R)you clean the outside of (S)the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of (T)greed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of (U)the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
27 (V)“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like (W)whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and (X)all uncleanness. 28 So you also (Y)outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of (Z)hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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Matthew 20:15
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15 (A)Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or (B)do you begrudge my generosity?’[a]
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- Matthew 20:15 Or is your eye bad because I am good?
Jeremiah 8:8-9
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8 (A)“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
and the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
has made it into a lie.
9 (B)The wise men shall be put to shame;
they shall be dismayed (C)and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom is in them?
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