⁴²“^aWhoever causes one of these ¹little ones who believe to stumble, it ²would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he ³had been cast into the sea.

⁴³“^aIf your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into ¹^bhell, into the ^cunquenchable fire,

⁴⁴¹where their worm does not 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 life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into ¹^ahell,

⁴⁶¹where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

⁴⁷“^aIf your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into ¹^bhell,

⁴⁸^awhere their worm does not die, and ^bthe fire is not quenched.

⁴⁹“For everyone will be salted with fire.

⁵⁰“Salt is good; but ^aif the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you ¹make it salty again? ^bHave salt in yourselves, and ^cbe at peace with one another.”

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Footnotes

1I.e. humble
2Lit is better for him if a millstone turned by a donkey is hung
3Lit has been thrown
1Gr Gehenna
1Vv 44 and 46, which are identical to v 48, are not found in the early mss
1Gr Gehenna
1V 44, note
1Gr Gehenna
1Lit season it

Cross references

a Matt 18:6; Luke 17:2; 1 Cor 8:12
a Matt 5:30; 18:8
b Matt 5:22
c Matt 3:12; 25:41
a Matt 5:22
a Matt 5:29; 18:9
b Matt 5:22
a Is 66:24
b Matt 3:12; 25:41
a Matt 5:13; Luke 14:34f
b Col 4:6
c Mark 9:34; Rom 12:18; 2 Cor 13:11; 1 Thess 5:13