Mark 9:47
If 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,
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- Matt 18:9 : 9 And 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 9:43 : 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 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.
- Matt 5:28-29 : 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If 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.
- Matt 10:37-39 : 37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
- Gen 3:6 : 6 When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
- Job 31:1 : 1 Job Vindicates Himself“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?
- Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!
- Luke 14:26 : 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
- Gal 4:15 : 15 Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!
- Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ. 8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,
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- Matt 18:6-94 verses96%
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.
7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.
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.
9 And 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.
- Matt 5:28-303 verses90%
28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
29 If 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.
30 If 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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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.
- Mark 9:42-432 verses87%
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.
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.
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48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.
- Matt 6:22-232 verses79%
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
23 But 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!
- Luke 11:34-352 verses77%
34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, your body is full of darkness.
35 Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness.
- Luke 17:2-32 verses74%
2 It 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.
3 Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
- Matt 7:3-64 verses74%
3 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?
4 Or how can you say to your brother,‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?
5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
6 Do 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.
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41 Jesus replied,“If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.
- Matt 13:41-422 verses72%
41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.
42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Luke 6:41-422 verses72%
41 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?
42 How can you say to your brother,‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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62 Jesus said to him,“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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12 then you must cut off her hand– do not pity her.
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50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
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21 You 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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24 Again I say, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.”
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16 “But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.
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9 Even 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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19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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12 so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”
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26 “If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
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21 Jesus said to him,“If you wish to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
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14 Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”
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8 Look, the Sovereign LORD is watching the sinful nation, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. But I will not completely destroy the family of Jacob,” says the LORD.
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39 He also told them a parable:“Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
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13 Then 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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30 And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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25 Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.
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28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.
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25 In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
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10 Even 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.