29 (A)If your right eye (B)causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into (C)hell. 30 (D)And if your right hand (E)causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into (F)hell.

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(A)And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into (B)the eternal fire. (C)And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the (D)hell[a] of fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:9 Greek Gehenna

(A)Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for (B)whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For (C)the one who sows to his own flesh (D)will from the flesh reap corruption, but (E)the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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