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Mark 9:43

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43nAnd if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to ohell,9 to pthe unquenchable fire.10

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Footnotes

  1. 9Greek Gehenna; also verse 47
  2. 10Some manuscripts add verses 44 and 46 (which are identical with verse 48)

Cross references

  1. nMatt. 5:30; 18:8
  2. oSee Matt. 5:22, 29
  3. pver. 48; Matt. 3:12; See Matt. 25:41

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“And if your hand causes you to fall away, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go to hell, the unquenchable fire.

NLTNew Living Translation

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand than to go into the unquenchable fires of hell with two hands.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than, having two hands, to go into hell—into the unquenchable fire!

KJV 1900King James Version

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: