Mark 9:47

World English Bible (2000)

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

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  • Matt 18:9 : 9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
  • Mark 9:43 : 43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
  • Matt 5:28-29 : 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
  • Matt 10:37-39 : 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. 38 He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me. 39 He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
  • Gal 4:15 : 15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
  • Phil 3:7-8 : 7 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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  • Matt 18:6-9
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    6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

    7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

    8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

    9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

  • Matt 5:28-30
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    28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

    29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

    30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

  • Mark 9:42-46
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    42 Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

    43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

    44 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

    45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched--

    46 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

  • Mark 9:48
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    48 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

  • Matt 6:22-23
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    22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

    23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • Luke 11:34-35
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    34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

    35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

  • Luke 17:2-3
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    2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

    3 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

  • Matt 7:3-6
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    3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

    5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

    6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • John 9:41
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    41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

  • Matt 13:41-42
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    41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

    42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

  • Luke 6:41-42
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    41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    42 Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.

  • Luke 9:62
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    62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."

  • Deut 25:12
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    12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

  • Matt 13:50
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    50 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."

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    25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

  • Deut 19:21
    70%

    21 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Matt 19:24
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    24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

  • Matt 13:16
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    16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9 Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

  • Matt 7:19
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    19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

  • Mark 4:12
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    12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

  • Exod 21:26
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    26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

  • Matt 19:21
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    21 Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

  • Matt 15:14
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    14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

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    8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh.

  • Luke 6:39
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    39 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?

  • Matt 22:13
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    13 Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'

  • Matt 25:30
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    30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

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

  • Prov 4:25
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    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

  • Luke 13:28
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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, and yourselves being thrown outside.

  • Luke 18:25
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    25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

  • Matt 3:10
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    10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.