47 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out. It’s better to enter the Kingdom of God with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 ‘where the maggots never die and the fire never goes out.’[a]

49 “For everyone will be tested with fire.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:48 Isa 66:24.
  2. 9:49 Greek salted with fire; other manuscripts add and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

47 And if your eye causes you to stumble,(A) 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,(B) 48 where

“‘the worms that eat them do not die,
    and the fire is not quenched.’[a](C)

49 Everyone will be salted(D) with fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:48 Isaiah 66:24