If your hand or your foot causes you to fall away, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.(A) And if your eye causes you to fall away, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire.[a](B)

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

10 “See to it that you don’t despise one of these little ones,(C) because I tell you that in heaven their angels(D) continually view the face of my Father in heaven.[b](E)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:9 Lit gehenna of fire
  2. 18:10 Some mss include v. 11: For the Son of Man has come to save the lost.

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