Mark 9:42-50

International Standard Version

Causing Others to Sin^(A)

⁴² “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. ⁴³ So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It’s better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell,^[a] to the fire that cannot be put out. ⁴⁴ In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.^[b]

⁴⁵ And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It’s better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.^{[c] 46} In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.^[d]

⁴⁷ And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It’s better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.^{[e] 48} In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.

⁴⁹ Because everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.^{[f] 50} Salt is good. But if salt loses its taste, how can you restore its flavor? Keep on having salt among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.”