Luke 11:35

Simplified Cowboy Version

But if you are only looking for the ways of the world to please you, then your eye is squeezed shut, and no light is within you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Take care, then, that the light in you is not darkness.

King James Version (1611)
Take heede therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darknesse.

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

English Standard Version
Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.

New American Standard Bible
"So watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

New Century Version
So be careful not to let the light in you become darkness.

Amplified Bible
"Be careful, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

Berean Standard Bible
Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

Contemporary English Version
So be sure that your light isn't darkness.

Complete Jewish Bible
So take care that the light in you is not darkness!

Darby Translation
See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

Easy-to-Read Version
So be careful! Don't let the light in you become darkness.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Take heede therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darkenesse.

George Lamsa Translation
Take heed, therefore, lest the light which is in you be darkness.

Good News Translation
Make certain, then, that the light in you is not darkness.

Lexham English Bible
Therefore pay careful attention that the light in you is not darkness!

Literal Translation
Watch, then, that the light in you is not darkness.

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

Bible in Basic English
So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

International Standard Version
Therefore, be careful that the light in you isn't darkness.

Etheridge Translation
Beware, therefore, lest the light that is in thee become darkness.

Murdock Translation
See to it, therefore, lest the light that is in thee, be darkness.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take heede therefore, that the lyght which is in thee, be not darknes.

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

World English Bible
Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Take heed therefore, left the light that is in thee be darkness.

Weymouth's New Testament
Consider therefore whether the light that is in you is anything but mere darkness.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor se thou, lest the liyt that is in thee, be derknessis.

Update Bible Version
Look therefore whether the light that is in you is not darkness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

New English Translation
Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness.

New King James Version
Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.

New Living Translation
Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness.

New Life Bible
Be careful that the light in you is not dark.

New Revised Standard
Therefore consider whether the light in you is not darkness.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be looking to it, therefore, lest, the light that is in thee, be, darkness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

Revised Standard Version
Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Take hede therfore that the light which is in the be not darknes.

Young's Literal Translation
take heed, then, lest the light that [is] in thee be darkness;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take hede therfore, that the light which is in the, be not darcknesse.

Mace New Testament (1729)
take care therefore, that the light which is in thee do not become darkness.

Contextual Overview

²⁹More and more folks crowded around Jesus as he talked, "All those ridin' for themselves keep asking me to do more and more miracles. But the only miracle they will see will be the same one the Boss did for Jonah. ³⁰He was dead three days and then came back. This miracle was to prove to the evil people in Nineveh that Jonah came from the Boss. God will do the same thing for his Top Hand. ³¹The Queen of Sheba traveled all the way from her foreign land to listen to the wisdom of Solomon. On Judgment Day, she will condemn y'all because now there is one even wiser than he was. ³²Even the people of Nineveh will talk bad about y'all on Judgment Day. They listened and did what Jonah told them to, but there is someone greater than even Jonah here, but y'all won't turn from your sorry ways. ³³"No one lights an oil lamp at night and then puts a hat over it. They will put it on a high shelf so that it can shine for everyone to see. ³⁴"Your eye is the oil lamp for your body. When your eyes are open to the truth, your whole body shines with light. ³⁵But if you are only looking for the ways of the world to please you, then your eye is squeezed shut, and no light is within you. ³⁶If your body is full of light, your whole life will shine bright and be blessed."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 16:25, Proverbs 26:12, Isaiah 5:20, Isaiah 5:21, Jeremiah 8:8, Jeremiah 8:9, John 7:48, John 7:49, John 9:39-41, Romans 1:22, Romans 2:19-23, 1 Corinthians 1:19-21, 1 Corinthians 3:18-20, James 3:13-17, 2 Peter 1:9, 2 Peter 2:18, Revelation 3:17

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 2:13 - light Matthew 6:1 - heed 1 Corinthians 3:10 - But let every

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take heed therefore,.... By attending to the light of the Gospel, shining in the ministration of it, and do not neglect and despise it:

that the light which is in thee be not darkness; lest being given up to a judicial blindness and hardness of heart, not only the light of nature, which the Jews had in common with the Gentiles, but even that notional light and knowledge of divine things, which they had by being favoured with an external revelation, the writings of the Old Testament, should be lost.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses are found in Matthew, but in a different connection. See the notes at Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23.