Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart; suppress the first risings and inward motions of such uncharitableness.
Thine eye be evil, i.e. envious, unmerciful, unkind, as this phrase is used, Pro_23:6Mat_20:15; as a good eye notes the contrary disposition, Pro_22:9.
It be sin, i.e. it be charged upon thee as a sin, and as a great sin, as the word sin sometimes signifies, as Pro_24:9Joh_15:24Jam_4:17.