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 shall by no means lose his reward.

42 (B)Whoever causes one of these [b]little ones who believe in Me to [c]sin, it is better for him if a heavy millstone is hung around his neck and he [d]is thrown into the sea. 43 And (C)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 [e](D)hell, into the (E)unquenchable fire.[f] 45 And if your foot is causing you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life without a foot, than, having your two feet, to be thrown into [g](F)hell.[h] 47 And (G)if your eye is causing you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into [i](H)hell, 48 (I)where their worm does not die, and (J)the fire is not extinguished. 49 For everyone will be salted with fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:41 Lit in a name that you are Christ’s
  2. Mark 9:42 Or lowly
  3. Mark 9:42 Or stumble
  4. Mark 9:42 Lit has been thrown (intensified)
  5. Mark 9:43 Gr Gehenna
  6. Mark 9:43 Late mss repeat v 48 here as v 44
  7. Mark 9:45 Gr Gehenna
  8. Mark 9:45 Late mss repeat v 48 here as v 46; cf. note 2 v 43
  9. Mark 9:47 Gr Gehenna

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