But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! {call...: Heb. say concerning evil, It is good, etc}

For my people {is} foolish, they have not known me; they {are} sottish children, and they have none understanding: they {are} wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? {there is} more hope of a fool than of him.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; {and} their hearts, that they cannot understand. {shut: Heb. daubed}

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: {blindness: or, hardness}

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now {are ye} light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know {them}, because they are spiritually discerned.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, {it is} because {there is} no light in them. {no...: Heb. no morning}

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Woe unto you, {ye} blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

How do ye say, We {are} wise, and the law of the LORD {is} with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he {it}; the pen of the scribes {is} in vain. {in vain made...: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood}

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which {vail} is done away in Christ.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. {that...: Heb. that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly, etc}

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, {it is} because {there is} no light in them. {no...: Heb. no morning}

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

He is a leprous man, he {is} unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague {is} in his head.

If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;

{That} was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.