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And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin,[a] cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin,[b] pluck it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell[c] of fire.

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:8 Greek causes . . . to stumble
  2. Matthew 18:9 Greek causes . . . to stumble
  3. Matthew 18:9 Greek Gehenna
  4. Matthew 18:10 Other ancient authorities add verse 11, For the Son of man came to save the lost

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