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43 If your hand causes you to fall into sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed, than to have two hands and go into hell,[a] into the unquenchable fire, 44 ‘where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’[b] 45 If your foot causes you to fall into sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, than to have two feet and be thrown into hell,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:43 Or Gehenna
  2. Mark 9:44 Isaiah 66:24 is quoted in verses 44, 46, and 48. A few witnesses to the text omit verses 44 and 46.
  3. Mark 9:45 Or Gehenna