⁴²“If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied round his neck and be thrown into the sea. ⁴³^*So if your hand makes you lose your faith, cut it off! It is better for you to enter life without a hand than to keep both hands and go off to hell, to the fire that never goes out.^o ⁴⁵And if your foot makes you lose your faith, cut it off! It is better for you to enter life without a foot than to keep both feet and be thrown into hell.^p ⁴⁷^*And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out! It is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into hell. ⁴⁸^*There ‘the worms that eat them never die, and the fire that burns them is never put out.’

⁴⁹“Everyone will be purified by fire as a sacrifice is purified by salt.

⁵⁰^*“Salt is good; but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again?

“Have the salt of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.”

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Footnotes

oSome manuscripts add verse 44: There ‘the worms that eat them never die, and the fire that burns them is never put out’ (see verse 9:48).
pSome manuscripts add verse 46: There ‘the worms that eat them never die, and the fire that burns them is never put out’ (see verse 9:48).

Cross references

*9.43: Mt 5:30
*9.47: Mt 5:29
*9.48: Is 66:24
*9.50: Mt 5:13; Lk 14:34, 35