43 “And if your hand causes you to fall away, cut it off.(A) It is better for you to enter life maimed(B) than to have two hands and go to hell, the unquenchable fire.[a](C)

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  1. 9:43 Some mss include v. 44: Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

43 If your hand causes you to stumble,(A) cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell,(B) where the fire never goes out.(C)

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And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed[a] among our members. It stains the whole body,(A) sets the course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

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  1. 3:6 Or places itself, or appoints itself

The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)

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