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Matthew 5:29

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29“aIf your right eye makes you 1stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you 2to lose one of the parts of your body, 3than for your whole body to be thrown into 4bhell.

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Footnotes

  1. 1I.e. sin
  2. 2Lit that one … be lost
  3. 3Lit not your whole body
  4. 4Gr Gehenna

Cross references

  1. aMatt 18:9; Mark 9:47
  2. bMatt 5:22

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

NLTNew Living Translation

So if your eye—even your good eye—causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell.

KJV 1900King James Version

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.