New American Standard Bible 1995

Mark 9:42-48

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, 44[9where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.] 45If 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 10 11hell, 46[12where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.] 47 13If 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 14 15hell, 48 16where their worm does not die, and 17the fire is not quenched.

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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 ↩
9. Mark 9:44 Vv 44 and 46, which are identical to v 48, are not found in the early mss ↩
10. Mark 9:45 Gr Gehenna ↩
11. Mark 9:45 Matt 5:22 ↩
12. Mark 9:46 See v 44, note ↩
13. Mark 9:47 Matt 5:29; 18:9 ↩
14. Mark 9:47 Gr Gehenna ↩
15. Mark 9:47 Matt 5:22 ↩
16. Mark 9:48 Is 66:24 ↩
17. Mark 9:48 Matt 3:12; 25:41 ↩

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