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41 I tell all of you[a] with certainty, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to the Messiah[b] will never lose his reward.”

Causing Others to Sin(A)

42 “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 43 So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It’s better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell,[c] to the fire that cannot be put out.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:41 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.
  2. Mark 9:41 Or Christ
  3. Mark 9:43 Lit. Gehenna; a Gk. transliteration of the Heb. for Valley of Hinnom