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45-46 If your foot causes you to sin, chop it off. You would be better off to go into life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.[a] 47 (A) If your eye causes you to sin, get rid of it. You would be better off to go into God's kingdom with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell. 48 (B) The worms there never die, and the fire never stops burning.

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  1. 9.45,46 thrown into hell: Some manuscripts add, “The worms there never die, and the fire never stops burning.”

[46] [a] 47 And if your eye causes you to stumble,(A) pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,(B) 48 where

“‘the worms that eat them do not die,
    and the fire is not quenched.’[b](C)

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  1. Mark 9:46 Some manuscripts include here the words of verse 48.
  2. Mark 9:48 Isaiah 66:24