Matthew 18:8-10
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
8 And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin,[a] cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin,[b] pluck it out and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell[c][d] of fire.
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.[e]
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- Matthew 18:8 Greek causes . . . to stumble
- Matthew 18:9 Greek causes . . . to stumble
- Matthew 18:9 Greek Gehenna
- 18.9 Gehenna (see footnote b) was the name of a valley south of Jerusalem where human sacrifice had once been practiced; cf. 2 Chron 33.6. Later it became a cursed place and a refuse dump, and the name came to symbolize the Christian place of punishment.
- Matthew 18:10 Other ancient authorities add verse 11, For the Son of man came to save the lost
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