If your hand or your foot causes your downfall, 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 your downfall, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, rather than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire![a](B)

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

10 “See that you don’t look down on 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.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:9 Lit gehenna of fire

If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble,(A) cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to stumble,(B) 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 the fire of hell.(C)

The Parable of the Wandering Sheep(D)

10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels(E) in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

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