43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.
43And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed, than, having your two hands, to go into 9:43 Gr Gehennahell, into the unquenchable fire.9:43 Late mss repeat v 48 here as v 44
43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,
43If your hand causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It is better for you to enter life crippled, than to have two hands and go into 9:43 See note Matt 5:22.hell, into the unquenchable fire,
43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell,9:43 Greek Gehenna; also in verses 45 and 47 into the unquenchable fire.9:43 BYZ and TR include 44where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched; see verse 48 and Isaiah 66:24.
43-44If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter God’s kingdom with only one hand than to go into hell with two hands. In hell the fire never goes out.