Matthew 5:38

Retaliation

5:38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ ¹ 

Matthew 6:22

6:22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, ²  your whole body will be full of light.

Matthew 7:5

7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Matthew 18:9

18:9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have ³  two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell. ⁴ 

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¹ sn A quotation from Exod 21:24; Lev 24:20.

² tn Or “sound” (so L&N 23.132 and most scholars). A few scholars take this word to mean something like “generous” here (L&N 57.107). partly due to the immediate context concerning money, in which case the “eye” is a metonymy for the entire person (“if you are generous”).

³ tn Grk “than having.”

⁴ tn Grk “the Gehenna of fire.”

sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.