40 Bible Verses About Guarding Your Eyes

“I made a covenant with mine eyes; Why then should I think upon a maid?”

— Job 31:1

“I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave to me”

— Psalm 101:3

“Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; And quicken thou me in thy way”

— Psalm 119:37

“Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids”

— Proverbs 6:25

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report”

— Philippians 4:8

“Abstain from all appearance of evil”

— 1 Thessalonians 5:22

“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart”

— 2 Timothy 2:22

“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry”

— Colossians 3:5

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to esca”

— 1 Corinthians 10:13

“while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal”

— 2 Corinthians 4:18

“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh”

— Galatians 5:16

“Hell and destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied”

— Proverbs 27:20

“He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: Moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass”

— Proverbs 16:30

“Mine eye affecteth mine heart Because of all the daughters of my city”

— Lamentations 3:51

“For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; Yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear”

— Job 11:15

“Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life”

— Proverbs 4:23

“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: But the simple pass on, and are punished”

— Proverbs 22:3

“(for we walk by faith, not by sight:)”

— 2 Corinthians 5:7

“Discretion shall preserve thee, Understanding shall keep thee”

— Proverbs 2:11

“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ”

— 1 Peter 1:13

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”

— 1 Peter 5:8

“having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children”

— 2 Peter 2:14

“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof”

— Romans 13:14

“Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons”

— Deuteronomy 4:9

“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make”

— Joshua 1:8

“The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: And a good report maketh the bones fat”

— Proverbs 15:30

“And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire”

— Mark 9:47

“For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, And he pondereth all his goings”

— Proverbs 5:21

“It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, And after vows to make enquiry”

— Proverbs 20:25

“I have not sat with vain persons, Neither will I go in with dissemblers”

— Psalm 26:4

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's”

— Exodus 20:17

“Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck”

— Song of Solomon 4:9

“He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shuttet”

— Isaiah 33:15

“The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net”

— Micah 7:2

“Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is m”

— Habakkuk 1:13

“Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God”

— 3 John 1:11

“Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile”

— Psalm 34:13

“He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: But a prating fool shall fall”

— Proverbs 10:10

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world”

— 1 John 2:16

“let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess”

— Nehemiah 1:6