100 Bible Verses about Eyes

100 Bible Verses about Eyes

Matthew 6:22 ESV / 537 helpful votes
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 192 helpful votes
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”
Psalm 101:3 ESV / 169 helpful votes
I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Luke 11:33-36 ESV / 152 helpful votes
“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. 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. Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 128 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Mark 8:25 ESV / 120 helpful votes
Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.
2 Kings 6:17 ESV / 120 helpful votes
Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 118 helpful votes
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both.
Psalm 119:18 ESV / 118 helpful votes
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Proverbs 21:4 ESV / 90 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
Ephesians 1:16-21 ESV / 87 helpful votes
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, ...
Matthew 5:29 ESV / 85 helpful votes
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 61 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Job 31:7 ESV / 56 helpful votes
If my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands,
Psalm 13:2-3 ESV / 54 helpful votes
How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
Acts 9:18 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;
Proverbs 16:1-33 ESV / 51 helpful votes
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished. ...
Psalm 38:10 ESV / 51 helpful votes
My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
Luke 4:18 ESV / 47 helpful votes
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Job 31:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes
“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Psalm 121:1-8 ESV / 37 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. ...
1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 36 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Psalm 119:37 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.
Psalm 32:8 ESV / 31 helpful votes
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Psalm 33:18 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”
Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 25 helpful votes
“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 24 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
Psalm 34:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.
1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Matthew 6:22-23 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if 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!
Revelation 1:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
James 1:27 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—
Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Matthew 7:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
Proverbs 15:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
James 5:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Job 34:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
Deuteronomy 11:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
A land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
1 John 2:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 18 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Isaiah 6:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Proverbs 22:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes
The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor.
Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.
1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes
As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Luke 11:34 ESV / 17 helpful votes
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.
Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Luke 18:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Psalm 6:1-10 ESV / 16 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled. My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O LORD—how long? Turn, O LORD, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? ...
2 Kings 25:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.
Revelation 3:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
John 12:40 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”
Isaiah 5:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
Psalm 146:8-9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous. The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Acts 26:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes
To 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 place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
John 9:39-41 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
Luke 24:30-31 ESV / 13 helpful votes
When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight.
Zechariah 4:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. “These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth.”
Isaiah 64:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Psalm 123:1-2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us.
Psalm 94:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
Revelation 1:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 1:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Hebrews 4:12-13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Mark 8:17-18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?
Matthew 15:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Zephaniah 1:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
Isaiah 43:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Psalm 146:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.
Psalm 119:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
I will keep your statutes; do not utterly forsake me!
Psalm 116:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
2 Peter 2:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
Luke 16:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Matthew 5:38 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’
Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.
Psalm 35:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
Job 19:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
Deuteronomy 32:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Psalm 63:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
Psalm 27:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.
Job 17:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
Romans 1:19-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
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