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The Secret of Salt

43 “And if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than, having two hands, to go to Gehenna,[a] into the unquenchable fire. (44)  [b] 45 And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off! It’s better for you to enter life lame than, having your two feet, to be thrown into Gehenna.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:43 cf. Isa. 66:24; for more, see Glossary.
  2. Mark 9:45 Verses omitted; some mss. read: where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.