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Matthew 18:9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Matthew 18:9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
9 And if your eye causes you to sin,[a] pluck it out and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell[b][c] of fire.
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- Matthew 18:9 Greek causes . . . to stumble
- Matthew 18:9 Greek Gehenna
- 18.9 Gehenna (see footnote b) was the name of a valley south of Jerusalem where human sacrifice had once been practiced; cf. 2 Chron 33.6. Later it became a cursed place and a refuse dump, and the name came to symbolize the Christian place of punishment.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1965, 1966 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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