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but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,[a] it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

“Woe to the world for temptations to sin![b] For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the man by whom the temptation comes! And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin,[c] cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:6 Greek causes . . . to stumble
  2. Matthew 18:7 Greek stumbling blocks
  3. Matthew 18:8 Greek causes . . . to stumble

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