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Do Not Cause Little Believers to Fall Into Sin

42 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to fall into sin,[a] it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a large millstone hung around his neck. 43 If your hand causes you to fall into sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed, than to have two hands and go into hell,[b] into the unquenchable fire, 44 ‘where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:42 Or fall from faith (Greek skandalizo is also used in verses 43, 45, and 47)
  2. Mark 9:43 Or Gehenna
  3. Mark 9:44 Isaiah 66:24 is quoted in verses 44, 46, and 48. A few witnesses to the text omit verses 44 and 46.