New American Standard Bible 1995

Mark 9:42-43

42“1Whoever causes one of these 2little ones who believe to stumble, it 3would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he 4had been cast into the sea.

43 5If 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 6 7hell, into the 8unquenchable fire,

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Notes

1. Mark 9:42 Matt 18:6; Luke 17:2; 1 Cor 8:12 ↩
2. Mark 9:42 I.e. humble ↩
3. Mark 9:42 Lit is better for him if a millstone turned by a donkey is hung ↩
4. Mark 9:42 Lit has been thrown ↩
5. Mark 9:43 Matt 5:30; 18:8 ↩
6. Mark 9:43 Gr Gehenna ↩
7. Mark 9:43 Matt 5:22 ↩
8. Mark 9:43 Matt 3:12; 25:41 ↩

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