Mark 9:47

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Mark 9:45–49 · Berean Standard Bible

45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

48 where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’

49 For everyone will be salted with fire.

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Cross-references

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Genesis 3:6

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“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Psalms 119:37

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Matthew 5:28

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:29

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Matthew 10:37

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Matthew 10:38

and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.

Matthew 10:39

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

Galatians 4:15

What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Philippians 3:7

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

Philippians 3:8

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Mark 9:43

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.