009:043 If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off:
it would be better for you to enter into Life maimed, than remain
in possession of both your hands and go away into Gehenna,
into the fire which cannot be put out.
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009:045 Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off:
it would be better for you to enter into Life crippled, than remain
in possession of both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna.
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009:047 Or if your eye should cause you to sin, tear it out.
It would be better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God
half-blind than remain in possession of two eyes and be
thrown into Gehenna,
009:048 where their worm does not die and the fire does not go out.
009:049 Every one, however, will be salted with fire.
009:050 Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless,
what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you
and live at peace with one another."
010:001 Soon on His feet once more, He enters the district of Judaea
and crosses the Jordan: again the people flock to Him,
and ere long, as was usual with Him, He was teaching
them once more.
010:002 Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question--
seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"
010:003 "What rule did Moses lay down for you?" He answered.
010:004 "Moses," they said, "permitted a man to draw up a written
notice of divorce, and to send his wife away."
010:005 "It was in consideration of your stubborn hearts," said Jesus,
"that Moses enacted this law for you;
010:006 but from the beginning of the creation the rule was,