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43 So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It’s better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell,[a] to the fire that cannot be put out. 44 In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.[b]

45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It’s better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:43 Lit. Gehenna; a Gk. transliteration of the Heb. for Valley of Hinnom
  2. Mark 9:44 Other mss. lack this verse
  3. Mark 9:45 Lit. Gehenna; a Gk. transliteration of the Heb. for Valley of Hinnom