Matthew 18:8

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Matt 5:29-30 : 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.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
  • Deut 13:6-8 : 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; 8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
  • Isa 33:14 : 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
  • Rev 14:10 : 10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
  • Luke 16:24 : 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
  • Luke 18:22-23 : 22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me." 23 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.
  • Rom 13:12 : 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
  • Phil 3:8-9 : 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 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
  • 2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
  • Matt 14:3-4 : 3 For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. 4 For John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."
  • Matt 15:30-31 : 30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them, 31 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing--and they glorified the God of Israel.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
  • Isa 2:20-21 : 20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
  • Isa 30:22 : 22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"
  • Mark 9:43-49 : 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.' 47 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, 48 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
  • Luke 14:26-27 : 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. 27 Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.
  • Luke 14:33 : 33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.

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  • Mark 9:42-48
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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.'

    47 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,

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

  • Matt 18:9
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    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 5:29-30
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    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.

  • Matt 18:6-7
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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!

  • Luke 17:1-3
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    1 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

    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.

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

  • Exod 21:24-25
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    24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

    25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

  • Heb 12:13
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    13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

  • 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.

  • Deut 19:21
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    21 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Matt 6:23
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    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!

  • 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.

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

  • Lev 21:19
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    19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,

  • 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."

  • Lev 18:29
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    29 "'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

  • 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."

  • 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.'

  • 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."

  • 1 Cor 12:15
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    15 If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body.

  • Prov 4:27
    69%

    27 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

  • John 15:6
    69%

    6 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

  • Luke 9:24-25
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    24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

    25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

  • Luke 13:9
    68%

    9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

  • Deut 23:1
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    1 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.

  • Mark 8:35
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    35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • Matt 7:6
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    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.

  • 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.'

  • Luke 14:33
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    33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.

  • Matt 11:6
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    6 Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me."

  • Matt 10:28
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    28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

  • Heb 6:8
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    8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Matt 8:12
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    12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

  • Lev 23:29
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    29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.

  • John 16:1
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    1 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.