(A)If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than [a]to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire. (B)If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than [b]to have two eyes and be cast into the [c](C)fiery hell.

10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that (D)their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:8 Lit having; Gr part.
  2. Matthew 18:9 Lit having; Gr part.
  3. 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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