Matthew 5:29

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Matthew 5:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible

27 You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’

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.

29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

31 It has also been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’

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Matthew 18:8

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

Matthew 18:9

And if your eye causes you to sin, 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.

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.

Mark 9:45

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.

Mark 9:47

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,

Mark 9:48

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

Matthew 19:12

For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

Romans 6:6

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

1 Corinthians 9:27

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

1 Peter 4:1

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

1 Peter 4:2

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

1 Peter 4:3

For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

Matthew 16:26

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 5:9

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 5:11

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Proverbs 5:12

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Proverbs 5:14

I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

Mark 8:36

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Luke 9:24

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

Luke 9:25

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?