Matthew 5:30

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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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  • Matt 5:29 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • Luke 17:2 : 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.
  • Rom 9:33 : 33 just as it is written,“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
  • Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
  • Gal 5:11 : 11 Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
  • Matt 11:6 : 6 – and blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me!”
  • Matt 13:21 : 21 But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned and said to Peter,“Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.”
  • Matt 18:6-7 : 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.
  • Matt 22:13 : 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!’
  • Matt 25:20 : 20 The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, saying,‘Sir, you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’
  • Matt 26:31 : 31 The Prediction of Peter’s Denial Then Jesus said to them,“This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written:‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

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  • Matt 5:28-29
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    28But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

    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.

  • Matt 18:6-9
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    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 9:42-43
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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.

    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.

  • Mark 9:45
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    45If 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 9:47-48
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    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.

  • Deut 25:12
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    12then you must cut off her hand– do not pity her.

  • Matt 5:31
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    31Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’

  • Luke 17:2
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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.

  • 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.

    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!

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

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

  • Deut 19:20-21
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    20The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

    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.

  • Exod 21:24
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    24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

  • Matt 5:23
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    23So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you,

  • Matt 5:21
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    21Anger and Murder“You have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not murder,’ and‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

  • 1 Cor 12:15
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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.

  • Matt 25:30
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    30And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

  • Lev 18:29
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    29For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.

  • Matt 10:28
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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.

  • Lev 23:29
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    29Indeed, any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.

  • Luke 14:33
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    33In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

  • Prov 4:27
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    27Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

  • 1 Cor 5:5
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    5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

  • John 15:6
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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.

  • Deut 13:9
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    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

  • Matt 7:19
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    19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Luke 11:34
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    34Your 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.

  • Matt 7:5-6
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    5You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

    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.

  • Matt 6:3
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    3But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

  • Num 15:31
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    31Because he has despised the LORD’s message and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”

  • Luke 13:9
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    9Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

  • Luke 9:25
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    25For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

  • Matt 15:5
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    5But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”

  • Col 3:5
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    5So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

  • Matt 3:10
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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.

  • Luke 9:62
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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.”

  • Deut 23:1
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    1Purity in Public Worship A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the LORD.

  • Eccl 5:6
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    6Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell the priest,“It was a mistake!” Why make God angry at you so that he would destroy the work of your hands?”

  • Luke 3:9
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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.”