Matthew 5:29

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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.

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  • Mark 9:43-48 : 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. 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. 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, 48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.
  • Rom 6:6 : 6 We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 (for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
  • 1 Pet 4:1-3 : 1 So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, 2 in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires. 3 For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.
  • Matt 18:8-9 : 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 5:22 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.
  • Prov 5:8-9 : 8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person, 10 lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house. 11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away. 12 And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof! 13 For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors. 14 I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 Do 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.
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
  • Luke 9:24-25 : 24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it. 25 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?
  • Luke 12:5 : 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
  • Matt 19:12 : 12 For there are some eunuchs who were that way from birth, and some who were made eunuchs by others, and some who became eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this should accept it.”
  • Matt 23:15 : 15 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
  • Mark 8:36 : 36 For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 5:30-31
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    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.

    31 Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’

  • Matt 18:6-9
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    91%

    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.

  • Mark 9:47-48
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    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,

    48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.

  • Mark 9:42-43
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    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.

  • Mark 9:45
    81%

    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.

  • Matt 6:22-23
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    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!

  • Matt 5:27-28
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    77%

    27 Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’

    28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

  • Luke 11:34-35
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    76%

    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.

  • Deut 25:12
    74%

    12 then you must cut off her hand– do not pity her.

  • Matt 7:3-6
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    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.

  • Luke 17:2-3
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    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 5:38-39
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    38 Retaliation“You have heard that it was said,‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

    39 But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. But whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

  • Prov 4:25
    71%

    25 Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

  • Deut 19:21
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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.

  • Luke 6:41-42
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    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.

  • Exod 21:26
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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.

  • Exod 21:24
    70%

    24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

  • John 9:41
    69%

    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 5:23
    69%

    23 So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you,

  • Lev 24:20
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    20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth– just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

  • Luke 9:25
    68%

    25 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

  • Prov 6:25
    68%

    25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

  • Matt 19:21
    68%

    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.”

  • 1 Cor 12:16
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    16 And if the ear says,“Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

  • Matt 25:30
    68%

    30 And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

  • Matt 16:26
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    26 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

  • Deut 28:34
    68%

    34 You will go insane from seeing all this.

  • Matt 10:28
    68%

    28 Do 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.

  • Deut 28:54
    67%

    54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

  • Luke 9:62
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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.”

  • Mark 8:36
    67%

    36 For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

  • Col 3:5
    67%

    5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

  • Prov 4:27
    67%

    27 Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

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