Mark 9:43
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
Note Greek Gehenna; also in verses 45 and 47
Note BYZ and TR include 44 where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched; see verse 48 and Isaiah 66:24.
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
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,
Note or, Hell
And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- if
- Deuteronomy 13:6–8; Matthew 5:29, 30; Matthew 18:8, 9; Romans 8:13; 1 Corinthians 9:27; Galatians 5:24; Colossians 3:5; Titus 2:12; Hebrews 12:1; 1 Peter 2:1
- offend thee
- or, cause thee to offend: and so.
- Mark 9:45, 47
- maimed
- Matthew 15:30, 31; Luke 14:13, 21