Mark 9:45
If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
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Referenced Verses
- Mark 9:43 : 43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.
- Matt 18:8 : 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
- Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.
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- Mark 9:42-432 verses92%
42“If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.
43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.
- Matt 18:6-94 verses92%
6“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.
7Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.
8If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
9And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.
- Mark 9:47-482 verses87%
47If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,
48where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.
- Matt 5:29-302 verses84%
29If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.
30If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.
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2It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
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13and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.
- Matt 13:41-422 verses72%
41The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.
42They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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50and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
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10Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
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19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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9Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”
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23But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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27Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.
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13Then the king said to his attendants,‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!’
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28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
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5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
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6If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
- Luke 9:24-252 verses69%
24For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.
25For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?
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62Jesus said to him,“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
- Prov 1:15-162 verses69%
15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;
16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.
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2It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.
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15If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
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15“Their feet are swift to shed blood,
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15If the foot says,“Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.
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28Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
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19or a man who has had a broken leg or arm,
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30And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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35The LORD will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils– from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
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8But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
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24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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9One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.
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41“Then he will say to those on his left,‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
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21You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.
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5Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
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18And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?
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6Like cutting off the feet or drinking violence, so is sending a message by the hand of a fool.
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46And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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6Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.