Bible Verses About Eyes
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for eyes, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,197 votes, led by Matthew 6:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Eyes
Matthew 6:22756 votes
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Psalms 101:3312 votes
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
1 Samuel 16:7282 votes
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Psalms 119:18245 votes
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
2 Kings 6:17234 votes
And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Luke 11:33-36216 votes
No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.
Matthew 5:28210 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Proverbs 20:12206 votes
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
Mark 8:25202 votes
After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
Matthew 5:29160 votes
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Ephesians 1:16-21145 votes
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
Proverbs 21:4137 votes
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Psalms 119:37111 votes
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Job 31:1108 votes
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Job 31:7108 votes
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Acts 9:18106 votes
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
Psalms 38:10104 votes
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Ephesians 1:1896 votes
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Psalms 13:2-393 votes
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
Proverbs 16:1-3389 votes
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:1388 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Luke 11:3474 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:1874 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 John 2:1674 votes
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Psalms 32:870 votes
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
What does the Bible say about eyes?
Readers most often cite Matthew 6:22 on the subject of eyes. Across 7,197 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 101:3, 1 Samuel 16:7, Psalms 119:18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.