But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him that a large millstone[a] be hung on[b] his neck and he be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of causes for stumbling, for it is a necessity that causes for stumbling come; nevertheless, woe to the person through whom the cause for stumbling comes. And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it[c] from you! It is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than, having two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the eternal fire!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:6 Literally “a millstone of a donkey”
  2. Matthew 18:6 Some manuscripts have “around”
  3. Matthew 18:8 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation