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23 (A)but if (B)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!

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23 But if your eyes are unhealthy,[a] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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  1. Matthew 6:23 The Greek for unhealthy here implies stingy.

Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near’, and your (A)eye look grudgingly[a] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he (B)cry to the Lord against you, and (C)you be guilty of sin.

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  1. Deuteronomy 15:9 Or be evil; also verse 10

Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts,(A) is near,” so that you do not show ill will(B) toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.(C)

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(A)Do not eat the bread of a man who is (B)stingy;[a]
    (C)do not desire his delicacies,

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  1. Proverbs 23:6 Hebrew whose eye is evil

Saying 9

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)

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