43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire. 44 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ (WEB) 45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. 46 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ (WEB) 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, 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, 48 where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’ 49 For everyone will be salted with fire.
Mark 9:43–49
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