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43-44 (A) So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! You would be better off to go into life paralyzed than to have two hands and be thrown into the fires of hell that never go out.[a] 45-46 If your foot causes you to sin, chop it off. You would be better off to go into life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9.43,44 never go out: Some manuscripts add, “The worms there never die, and the fire never stops burning.”
  2. 9.45,46 thrown into hell: Some manuscripts add, “The worms there never die, and the fire never stops burning.”

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