43-48 “If your hand or your foot gets in God’s way, chop it off and throw it away. You’re better off maimed or lame and alive than the proud owner of two hands and two feet, godless in a furnace of eternal fire. And if your eye distracts you from God, pull it out and throw it away. You’re better off one-eyed and alive than exercising your twenty-twenty vision from inside the fire of hell.

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45 And if your foot causes you to stumble,(A) cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.(B) [46] [a] 47 And if your eye causes you to stumble,(C) pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:46 Some manuscripts include here the words of verse 48.