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And if your eye causes you to stumble and sin, pluck it out and throw it away from you; it is better (more profitable and wholesome) for you to enter life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the hell (Gehenna) of fire.

10 Beware that you do not despise or feel scornful toward or think little of one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always are in the presence of and look upon the face of My Father Who is in heaven.

11 [a]For the Son of man came to save [[b]from the penalty of eternal death] that which was lost.

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  1. Matthew 18:11 Many manuscripts do not contain this verse.
  2. Matthew 18:11 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.

And if your eye causes you to stumble,(A) gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.(B)

The Parable of the Wandering Sheep(C)

10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels(D) in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. [11] [a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:11 Some manuscripts include here the words of Luke 19:10.