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Luke 11:35

Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

KJV

σκόπει οὖν μὴ τὸ φῶς τὸ ἐν σοὶ σκότος ἐστίν.

Greek NT

Vide ergo ne lumen quod in te est, tenebræ sint.

Vulgate

Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness.

ASV

Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
σκοπέω
skopeo
verb · 6×
σκότος
skotos
noun · 31×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
φῶς
phos
noun · 72×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:19 — For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
  • 1Cor 3:10 — According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
  • 1Cor 3:18 — 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.
  • 2Pet 1:9 — But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
  • 2Pet 2:18 — For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
  • Isa 5:20 — 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!
  • Jas 3:13 — Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
  • Jer 8:8 — 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.
  • John 7:48 — Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
  • John 9:39 — 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.
  • Matt 6:1 — Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
  • Prov 16:25 — There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
  • Prov 26:12 — Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
  • Rev 3:17 — 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:
  • Rom 1:22 — Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
  • Rom 2:19 — And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,