Matthew 6:23 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great shall it be!
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
But if your eye has been corrupted, your entire body will be darkened. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great will that darkness be!
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that darkness!
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!
MSB Majority Standard Bible
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
BSB Berean Standard Bible
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!
LSV Literal Standard Version
but if your eye may be evil, all your body will be dark; if, therefore, the light that [is] in you is darkness—the darkness, how great!
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
But if thy eye be evil, thy whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great [is] that darkness!
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
But if thine eye be wicked, then all thy body shalbe darke. Wherefore if the light that is in thee, be darkenes, howe great is that darkenesse?
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
But if your eye is bad, your whole body is full of darkness. Therefore, if the light that is in you is actually darkness, how great is that darkness!
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
But and if thyne eye be wycked then all thy body shalbe full of derckenes. Wherfore yf the light that is in the be darckenes: how greate is that darckenes.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that [is] in thee is darkness — the darkness, how great!
FBV Free Bible Version
But if your eye is evil, then your whole body will be in the dark. If the ‘light’ you have is actually darkness, how dark is that!
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Mas si tu ojo fuere malo, todo tu cuerpo será tenebroso. Pues si la lumbre, que hay en tí, son tinieblas, ¿quán grandes serán las mismas tinieblas?
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Mas si tu ojo fuere malo, todo tu cuerpo será tenebroso. Así que, si la lumbre que en ti hay son tinieblas, ¿cuántas serán las mismas tinieblas?
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
pero si tu ojo es maligno, estarás sumido en la oscuridad. Y si tu luz no es más que oscuridad, tu oscuridad ¡qué negra debe ser!
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Pero si tu ojo está enfermo, todo tu cuerpo estará sumido en oscuridad. Si la luz que hay en ti es oscuridad, ¿cuánto más será la misma oscuridad?
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Pero si tu ojo es perverso, entonces todo tu cuerpo estará en tinieblas. Si la luz dentro de ustedes está en tinieblas, ¡cuán oscuro es eso!
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Pero si tu ojo está enfermo, todo tu cuerpo estará en oscuridad. Así que, si la luz que hay en ti es oscuridad, ¡qué grande será esa oscuridad!
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
ἐὰν δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου πονηρὸς ᾖ, ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου σκοτεινὸν ἔσται. εἰ οὖν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἐν σοὶ σκότος ἐστί, τὸ σκότος πόσον;
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
εαν δε ο οφθαλμος σου πονηρος η, ολον το σωμα σου σκοτεινον εσται. ει ουν το φως το εν σοι σκοτος εστιν, το σκοτος ποσον;
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
ἐὰν δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου πονηρὸς ᾖ, ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου σκοτεινὸν ἔσται. Εἰ οὖν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἐν σοὶ σκότος ἐστί, τὸ σκότος πόσον;
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
εαν δε ο οφθαλμοσ σου πονηροσ η ολον το σωμα σου σκοτεινον εσται ει ουν το φωσ το εν σοι σκοτοσ εστιν το σκοτοσ ποσον
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
ἐὰν δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου πονηρὸς ᾖ, ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου σκοτεινὸν ἔσται. εἰ οὖν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἐν σοὶ σκότος ἐστίν, τὸ σκότος πόσον.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
ἐὰν δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου πονηρὸς ᾖ, ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου σκοτεινὸν ἔσται. εἰ οὖν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἐν σοὶ σκότος ἐστίν, τὸ σκότος πόσον.
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Si autem oculus tuus fuerit nequam, totum corpus tuum tenebrosum erit. Si ergo lumen, quod in te est, tenebræ sunt: ipsæ tenebræ quantæ erunt?
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
а҆́ще ли ѻ҆́ко твоѐ лꙋка́во бꙋ́детъ, всѐ тѣ́ло твоѐ те́мно бꙋ́детъ. А҆́ще ᲂу҆̀бо свѣ́тъ, и҆́же въ тебѣ̀, тьма̀ є҆́сть, то̀ тьма̀ кольмѝ;
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
если же око твое будет худо, то все тело твое будет темно. Итак, если свет, который в тебе, тьма, то какова же тьма?
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
εάν όμως ο οφθαλμός σου ήναι πονηρός, όλον το σώμα σου θέλει είσθαι σκοτεινόν. Εάν λοιπόν το φως το εν σοι ήναι σκότος, το σκότος πόσον;
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Ако ли око твоје кварно буде, све ће тело твоје тамно бити. Ако је дакле видело што је у теби тама, а камоли тама?
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Ako li oko tvoje kvarno bude, sve će telo tvoje tamno biti. Ako je dakle videlo što je u tebi tama, a kamoli tama?
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
وَإِنْ كَانَتْ عَيْنُكَ شِرِّيرَةً فَجَسَدُكَ كُلُّهُ يَكُونُ مُظْلِمًا، فَإِنْ كَانَ ٱلنُّورُ ٱلَّذِي فِيكَ ظَلَامًا فَٱلظَّلَامُ كَمْ يَكُونُ!
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC