41 For (A)whoever gives you a cup of water to drink [a]because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward.

42 (B)Whoever causes one of these [b]little ones who believe to stumble, it [c]would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he [d]had been cast into the sea. 43 (C)If 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 [e](D)hell, into the (E)unquenchable fire,

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:41 Lit in a name that you are Christ’s
  2. Mark 9:42 I.e. humble
  3. Mark 9:42 Lit is better for him if a millstone turned by a donkey is hung
  4. Mark 9:42 Lit has been thrown
  5. Mark 9:43 Gr Gehenna