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Matthew 5:30

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30“aIf your right hand makes you 1stumble, cut it off 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 go 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 18:8; Mark 9:43
  2. bMatt 5:22

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

NLTNew Living Translation

And if your hand—even your stronger hand—causes you to sin, cut it off 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 hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your limbs be destroyed than your whole body go into hell.

KJV 1900King James Version

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, 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.